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' Time is a river deep and wide : 

And while along its banks we stray. 
We see our lov'd ones o"er its tide 
Sail from our sight, away, away. 
♦ • * Wiiere are they sped ? 

Beyoud the Eiver.' 



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1 



ON THE DEATH OF LADY ARBELLA JOHNSON. 

BY MRS. L. H. 8IQOUBNKY. 

Their brown log huts peered rndely forth, 

Mid copse and thicket gray, 
AVith fragile tents, that scarcely kept 

The mocking storms at bay, 
While through the flashing forest wheeled 

The savage war-dance wild; 
Yet, 'mid these strange and startling scenes, 

The Flower of Lincoln smiled. 

Months sped their course ; the circling year 

Sealed up its finished scroll ; 
And happine;*s, with changeless bloom, 

Breathed fragrance o'er her soul ; 
For, though no costly bdard was there, 

Nor gnest in pomp arrayed, 
Yet true love made an Eden home 

Within that greenwood shade. 

But he, alas ! whose touch doth turn 

Warm life to icy clay, 
Stole on, and from the blanching lip 

Kissed the sweet soul away, 



Vi LADY ARABELLA JOHNSON. 

And mournful, 'mid the gnarled roots 
Of the thicket's broken crown, 

To scoop that lady's narrow house. 
The grating spade went down. 

For her there was no plumed hearse. 

No long procession drear. 
No requiem from the organ's soul, 

Nor velvet-mantled bier, 
Though in her own ancestral clime, 

A tomb of sculptured fame, 
'Neath old cathedral's lofty arch, 

Her noble birth might claim. 

Yet still she hath a monument 

To strike the pensive eye, — 
The tender memories of the land 

Wherein her ashes lie ; 
The holy love that blest Ms heart 

Who brought her o'er the tide, 
That beamed with sunny glance on him, 

When all was dark beside ; 

The saintly faith that bore her soul 

Where clouds no more are known. 
Save by the fruits their tear-drops helped 

To ripen round the throne ; 
Yes, that pure love, that hallowed faith, 

Have reared above her clay 
Such monument and epitaph 

As may not wear away. 



Isaac Johnson, sometimes honored with the name of the Father of / 
Boston, was supposed, as we have said, to have been the first person 
laid in the King's Chapel Burying-ground. He was one of that inter- 



ISAAC JOHNSON. VU 

esting band who came with Governor.-: Winthrop anil Dudley, in the 
Arabella, and landed at Salem on the 12tli of June, 1(».'>0. In their 
early explorations, he was anxious that the region of the "beautiful 
Tri-niountain " should be chosen as the site of their future city, when 
it contained no habitation, save the lonely cottage of Willia n Black- 
stone. This selection was sanctioned, and received, on September 7th 
1631, the name of Boston. He was present on this occasion; but soon 
after became a tenant of the silent city of the dead. He bore a high 
character for energy, liberality, and piety. His death was supposed !<> 
have been hastened by deep grief for the loss of his wife, the Lady Ara- 
bella Johnson, daughter of the Earl of Lincoln, who, moved by undying 
affection, left her native halls of ease and luxury, to follow and cheer 
him in a comparative wilderness. 



CONTENTS. 



iNTRODDCnON, ..... 

«_JHemoir of Governor Bowdoin, 

Memoir of Lieutenant-Governor Gushing, 

Memoir of Governor Bellingham, 

Memoir of Governor Dudley, 

Memoirs of the Walley P'amily, 

Memoir of Governor Leverett, 

Memoir of Uriah Cotting, 

Memoirs of tlie Ministers of the Old South Church, 

Memoir of Dr. Eckley, 
v Memoir of the Rev. John Bacon, 
V Memoirs of the Amory P'amily, 

Memoir of Governor Sumner, 

Names of those deposited in Governor Sumner's Tomb, 

Some account of the Ilyslop Family, 

Death-bed of Governor Sumner, 

Memoir of Dr. Jeremy Belknap, 

Letter from Dr. Thaddcus William Hurriss, 

Memoir of Edmond Mountfort, 

Memoir of Captain Barnabas Pinncy, 

Memoirsof the Bass Family, 

Letter from Kcv. Dr. Samuel Sewull, 

Memoirs of the Sewall Family, 

Memoirs of the Parker Family, 

Memoir of Arthur Mason, 

Memoir of Abraham Perkins, 

Edward Bumstead, 

Memoir of Elizabeth Poole, 

Memoir of Rev. Thomas Baldwin, 
Memoir of Elisha Brown, 
Memoir of Edward Pierce, 



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13 
15 
23 
33 
43 
46 
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58 
60 
67 
81 
94 
95 
96 
103 
107 
112 
119 
126 
128 
128 
136 
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150 
156 
157 
161 
163 
164 



CONTENTS. 



V Memoir of Judge Wadsworth, 
Victims of the Boston Massacre, 
Memoir of Andrew Johonot, 
Memoir of Abraham Lee, 
Memoirs of the Hunt P'amily, 
Memoirs of the Cabbot Family, . 
Memoirs of the Child Family, 
Memoirs of the Pemberton Family, 

■•' Memoir of William Trask, 
Memoir of Peter Fanueil, 

V Memoir of General Joseph Warren, 
Memoirs of the Russell Family, . 
Lines by Mrs. D. Ellen Goodman, 
Mem oirs of the Cutler Family, . 
Memoirs of the Phillips Family, 
Memoirs of the Minot Family, 
Memoirs of the Lowell Family, 
Memoirs of the Clark Family, 
Memoir of Deacon Luther Clark, 
Memoirs of the Brattle Family, . 
Memoir of Dr. Franklin, 
Memoirs of the Holmes Family, 
Memoir of Lieutenant James Torrey, 
Memoirs of the Hale Family, 
Memoir of Lieutenant-Governor Gray, 
Memoirs of the Loring Family, 
Memorials of the Gushing Family, 
Memorials of the Spear Family, 
Memorials of the Gray Family, 
Memorials of the Codman Family, 
Memorial of George Felt, . 
Memorial of Rev. John Baily, 
Memorial of -Governor Dummer, 
Memoir of Governor Haynes, 
Memoir of George Blake, 

Descendants of Captain William Greenough, 
Memoirs of the Tappan Family, . 
Memoirs of the Shaw Family, 
Memoirs of the Thorndike Family, 

V Memoirs of the Palfrey Family, 
Memoir of Humphrey Barrett, 

7 Memoir of Edmond Grcenleaf, 
Memoir of Governor Hancock, 
Monument at Bloody Brook, 
Memoirs of the Lathrop Family, 
Grave of Captain Lathrop, . 
Index, .... 



INTRODUCTION. 



In the former publication by the Author of the present volume, 
the King's Chapel and Copp's Hill Burial Grounds, with their 
ancient monuments and gravestones, have been fully described. 
Encouraged by the approbation bestowed upon these works, Mr. 
Bridgman has extended his researches to the Granary Burial 
Ground, — the third in the list of the ancient cemeteries of 
Boston. The present volume is the result of his labors, and 
will, we believe, be found not less valuable and curious than its 
predecessors. 

In the introduction to the former volumes, the general 
topics pertinent to a work of this kind have been treated in an 
interesting manner. It would be unbecoming on this occasion 
to attempt a repetition in diflferent words of what has been so 
well said before. Our object in these few preliminary remarks, 
is to invite the favorable attention of the public to Mr. Bridg- 
man's labors. 

For the information of persons not acquainted with the 
early history of Boston, it may be stated, that this place 
of burial, now in the centre of its population, was formerly 
on the outskirts of its inhabited portion. It lies on Tre- 



Xii INTRODUCTION. 

mont Street, between the Tremont House, the Park Street 
Church, the Boston Athenaeum, aM some of the most valuable 
private houses of Boston, on Park and Beacon Streets. The 
space occupied by the burial ground was originally open on the 
south-west to the Common, from which it was afterwards sepa- 
rated by the erection of the G-ranary and other public buildings. 
The Granary was a long wooden building capable of containing 
twelve thousand bushels of grain, which was annually laid in, 
by a committee chosen for that purpose, to be sold to the poor 
at a small advance on the wholesale price. Above the Grranary 
on what is now called Park Street, were the Bridewell and 
Aims-House. The names of these buildings sufficiently il- 
lustrate the change which time has made in the geography of 
Boston. At that early period, Copp's Hill was the court end 
of the town. 

The most striking feature of the Granary Burial Ground, 
is the fine row of trees which fronts it on Tremont Street, 
eleven in number. These trees are European elms ; less 
graceful than the American species, but a most noble and 
stately tree, with the advantage of being in leaf five or six 
weeks longer than the native variety. These beautiful trees 
are said to have been planted by Major Adino Paddock and Mr. 
John Ballard in 1*762. * Several of them measure at least ten 
feet in circumference, at a distance of four feet from the ground, 
though their growth has probably been checked by the pave- 
ment of the street and the sidewalk, which has deprived them 
of a part of their natural nourishment. This evil has of late 
years been remedied as far as practicable. TiU a few years 
since the walk under these trees was frequently called " Pad- 
dock's Mall." 

* Report of the Trees and Shrubs of Massachusetts, by Mr. George B. EmersoBj 
page 301, 



INTRODUCTION. xHi 

But though admirably shack-d iu front by these fiiie trees, 
the ancient l)urial ground itself was, till about thirty years 
since, destitute of any similar ornament. It has within that 
period been greatly embellished by a dense plantation of trees 
and shrubbery, made at private expense, under the superin- 
tendence of Mr. Andrew Belknap. All the most pleasing 
varieties of our forest trees, the maple, the larch, the moun- 
tain-ash, the bass-wood, and the willow, are tastefully inter- 
mingled with each other. They are grown up to such a si^e 
as to afford a delightful shelter to those who come to explore 
the moss-covered memorials of the past. Their branches fur- 
nish the birds an undisturbed retreat not often found in a 
populous city ; and give to the neighboring houses the luxury 
of a rural prospect. 

" In living green, 
Cypress and stately cedar spread their shade 
O'er uuforgotten graves, scattering in air 
Their grateful odors." 

It would be an anticipation of the contents of the following 
pages to enumerate the ancient monuments which are contained 
in the Granary Burial Ground. Their inscriptions, with the 
similar records of the other burial grounds, form no insignificant 
portion of the early annals of Boston. Pious and venerable 
men, who served the infant colony with fidelity and zeal, are 
there rescued from forgetfulness. 

" Their name, their years, spelt by the unlettered muse, 
The place of fame and elegy supply." 

There is one of the monuments iu this ancient burial 
ground which ought not to pass unnoticed on this occasion, 
viz., that which was erected to the memory of Josiah Franklin 



XIV INTRODUCTION. 

and Abiah, his wife, by their son Benjamin Franklin. Josiah 
Franklin was a native of the village of Ecton, in Northampton- 
shire, in England, and in consequence of the persecutions to which 
the Nonconformists were exposed, emigrated to tliis country in 
1685, Abiah, whose maiden name was Folger, was from Nan- 
tucket, and became the second wife of Josiah, after his settle- 
ment in Boston. Four sons and four daughters were born of 
this marriage, — Benjamin being the youngest son. The father 
died in 1744, at the age of 89 ; the mother in 1752, at the age 
of 85. On his visit to his native city of Boston, shortly 
afterwards, a marble monument was placed upon their grave 
by their illustrious son, with the beautiful inscription which 
will be found in its place in the present volume. This simple 
monument having fallen into decay, was replaced in 1827 by 
a substantial granite obelisk, which will henceforward form 
one of the greatest objects of interest in the Granary Burial 
Ground. The fragments of the original marble were collected 
and placed under the obelisk. By the side of the obelisk 
stands the gravestone of Benjamin Franklin, the uncle of the 
patriot and statesman. 

Beneath a beautiful and luxuriant larch tree, twenty-one 
feet within the front wall, and sixty feet south of the Tremont 
House, repose the ashes of the citizens of Boston who fell in 
State Street, on the ever memorable 5th of March, 1770, the 
first victims of the oppressive and tyrannical measures of the 
British ministry, which resulted in the American Kevolution, 
No stone marks the spot.* 

In the tomb of the Minot family, on the southwestern side 
of the burial ground, and immediately in the rear of the estate 

"^ It is proposed to erect a neat monument to their memory by the compiler of this 
volume, should the profits from its sale warrant it, on which will be inscribed their 
names, and a suitable epitaph, written by a Boston Antiquarian of the Old School. 

[T. B.] 



INTRODUCTION. XV 

of Dr. John C. Warren, the remains of General Joseph Warren, 
the illustrious martyr of Bunker Hill, were deposited in the 
spring of 1776. A particular account of their discovery and of 
the measures taken for their preservation, will he found in the 
following memorandum, kindly communicated for the present 
work : — 

" Boston, ficpt., 1855. 

" The remains of General Warren were buried on Bunker 
Hill the morning after 17th June ; the body was stripped 
of its clothes and thrown into a pit with that of a butcher, — 
the latter was not stripped, his frock and trowsers being of 
little value. After the evacuation of Boston in March, 1776, a 
funeral oration was delivered by Perez Morton, Esq., in the 
Stone Chapel ; — the remains of General Warren were exhumed 
for the occasion in the presence of two of his brothers, Dr. John 
Warren, and Judge Warren, of Foxboro, and was by them 
distinguished, by two facts : —one was, the fixture of the loft- 
eye tooth by a gold wire, — the other was, a perforation of the 
right side of the head by a bullet ; the place of the wound had 
been noticed at the time of the interment by General Winslow, 
who, being then a young boy, was permitted by the British 
officers to attend for the purpose of distinguishing the body. 
Mr. Winslow remarked that three fingers of the right hand 
were bloody, as if he had clapped them to the wound. 

" After this solemn ceremony had been accomplished, the 
remains were deposited in the Miiiot tomb of the Granary 
burying ground. In the year 1824, when the attention of the 
public was excited about the Bunker Hill Monument, the 
remains were sought for, and, as stated above, discovered. It 
was recollected that there had been a great intimacy between 
General Warren and the family, of which Judge Minot (the 



Xvi INTRODUCTION. 

Author of the History of the Rebellion) was a prominent mem- 
ber, and that, in consequence of this friendship, permission was 
given to deposit the remains in their tomb. Dr. J. C. Warren 
obtained permission to open the tomb, and succeeded in dis- 
tinguishing the remains of General Warren by the bullet-hole 
in the side of the head, and the decay of the socket of the 
left-eye tooth. This tomb is now surrounded by a massive iron 
fence bounding on the wall which separates the estate of Dr. 
J. C. Warren from the burying ground. 

" The relics were then placed in a strong square mahogany 
box, with a silver plate containing the name of the departed 
patriot, and placed in a very dry tomb under St. Paul's Church, 
in 1824. In August, 1855, it being thought expedient to place 
these and some other relics in durable stone urns, they were 
removed from the wooden to the stone receptacle, with a hope 
of preserving them for ages. — On opening the wooden boxes, 
the bones were found damp, beginning to decay; requiring 
means to arrest the decomposition, and put them in a state 
which may preserve them for the veneration of posterity." 

Boston, Janua/ry ls«, 1856. 



Below is an engraving of a Monument about to be erected in Roxbury, in memory 
of John Eliot, the Apostle to the Indians. 







TJIE APOSTLE TO THE INDIANS, 

I lied at Roxl.ury, May 20th, 1690, in the 86th v.^'ir .,f Ii 




■ J-ArJWBf 







WENDELL AND OLIVER. 






KOGEU OLA P. 



THE GRANARY BURIAL GROUND. 




This cut is an exact copy of the Arms iuscribed on the tablet which 
designates the Bowdoin Tomb. When it was originally placed there is 
not known. The crest, however, as here given, does not accurately re- 
present the crest of the Bowdoin family, which is an Eagle, their motto 
being " Ut aquUa codum versus.''^ This may have been, and probably 
was, a mere mistake of the stone-cutter ; or, possibly, some branch of the 
Bowdoins, in other days and other lands, may have had the Pelican for 
their crest. 



2 THE GRANARY BURIAL GROUND. 

The Bowdoin family has sometimes been traced back t(/ Baldwin, 
Count of Flanders, in 862, and sometimes to Baldwin, King of Jeru- 
salem, in 1143, both of whom are said to have spelled their names pre- 
cisely as the first emigrant to America spelled his. This first emigrant 
was Pierre Badouin, who arrived in Casco Bay, in the then Province of 
Maine, in the summer of 1687. He was of an old Huguenot family, 
which had long resided in the neighborhood of Rochelle, so well known 
to history as the stronghold of Protestantism in France. He had been 
driven out from his native land by the fury of that religious persecution for 
which Louis XIV. gave the signal, by the revocation of the Edict of Nantz. 
Having first sought refuge in Ireland, and having failed to find perma- 
nent employment there, he resolved to seek his fortune in the New World. 
A physician by education, and having enjoyed at home a handsome estate, 
he landed upon the shores of Maine, with a wife and four children, in a 
condition of absolute penury. Sir Edmund Andros, then Governor-in- 
Chief of New England, granted him, upon his petition, a hundred acres 
of land in Casco Bay, within or near the limits of the present city of 
Portland, and here he established himself, and commenced his efibrts to 
obtain bread for his family. In 1690 he removed to Boston, having 
departed from Casco just in time to escape the terrible massacre which 
was perpetrated there by the Indians on the 17th of May of that year. 
Pierre Bowdoin lived sixteen years after his arrival in Boston. He 
died in September, 1706 ; and his widow, Elizabeth, died 18th of 
August, 1720, aged seventy-seven years. They left two daughters and 
two sons, of whom the younger removed to Virginia, where his descend- 
ants are still living. 

2. James Bowdoin, the eldest son of the foregoing (the first of that 
name in America), must have been born at Rochelle, France, about the 
year 1676-7, and was a person of great energy, perseverance, and success. 
He commenced life as a mariner, but soon entered upon mercantile busi- 
ness, and, by economy and industry, elevated himself to the very first 
rank among the merchants of Boston. He was several times elected a 
member of the Executive Council of the Colony of Massachusetts, and 
at his death, on the eighth of September, 1747 (aged seventy-one years), 



GOVERNOR BOWDOIN. 3 

he left to his children an estate estimated at from fifty to a hundred 
thousand pounds sterling. 

3. James Bowdoin, the second son of the foregoing by his second 
wife, was born in Boston on the 7th of August, 1726, and was graduated 
at Harvard College in 1745. He was engaged for a few years after his 
father's death in commercial pursuits, but, being left with an indepen- 
dent estate, he soon devoted himself to literature, science, and politics. 
During a visit to Philadelphia, when only twenty-four years old, he 
became acquainted with Dr. Franklin, then in the maturity of his powers, 
and a friendship between them was formed, which was only terminated 
by death. Franklin sent Bowdoin, soon afterwards, a copy of all his 
Electrical papers, and invited his observations on them. A correspon- 
dence was thus opened, which continued during their lives. Some of 
Bowdoin's letters on philosophical subjects were sent by Franklin to 
Loudon, where they were read at the Eoyal Society, and published in a 
volume with his own. Bowdoin was, at a later day, chosen a Fellow of 
the Royal Society. He was,* also, among the founders of the American 
Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the first President of that Associa- 
tion. To this Association he bequeathed his large and valuable Library. 

Bowdoin entered political life in 1753, as one of the four Represen- 
tatives of his native town in the Provincial Legislature of Massachusetts, 
and he was re-elected by the people of Boston in 1754 and 1755. 
During this service, he was particularly prominent in advocating that 
union of the Colonies which was proposed by Franklin at the Albany 
Convention. 

In 1757, Bowdoin was elected by the House of Representatives a 
member of the Provincial Council, in which Hutchinson says he was 
" without a rival " in point of influence and importance. He was styled 
by Wedderbum, before the Privy Council in England, '' the leader and 
manager of the Council in Massachusetts as Mr. Adams was in the 
House." He served the people of Massachusetts in this capacity six- 
teen years, and was finally negatived by Governor Gage, by "the 
express orders of his Majesty." Hutchinson had forborne to negative 
him before upon the ground that *' it would be to no purpose, for he 



4 THE GRANAKY BURIAL GROUND. 

would be chosen, into the House, and do more mischief there than at 
the Council." 

In 1774, Bowdoin was elected one of the five Massachusetts Delegates 
to the first Continental Congress, at Philadelphia, and nothing but severe 
and serious illness prevented him from going; but he accepted the post 
of councillor from the Provincial Congress, assembled at Watertown the 
same year, and as soon as his health was restored, took his place as 
President of that body. In this capacity he continued to preside over 
the now independent Commonwealth, from time to time, as his health 
permitted, until the summer of 1777. During this period the National 
Independence had been declared, and Bowdoin was made chairman of the 
committee to superintend its proclamation from the balcony of the Old 
State House in Boston. 

In 1779, Bowdoin was chosen a Delegate to the Convention which 
framed the constitution of Massachusetts, and, on the assembling of 
that body, he was elected its President. His position as presiding officer, 
however, did not exempt him from the active duties of membership, and, 
during the long recess of the convention, he served as chairman of the select 
committee by which the original draft of the constitution was prepared. 

In 1785, Bowdoin was elected Governor of Massachusetts by the 
Legislature, there having been no choice by the people. In 1786, he 
was re-elected to the chief magistracy by a large majority of the popu- 
lar votes. This was the period of " Shay's Rebellion," when a formidable 
body of insurgents systematically interrupted the sessions of the courts 
of justice, and arrayed themselves in arms against the constituted author- 
ities of the State. Bowdoin administered the government, during this 
memorable crisis, with the greatest discretion and firmness, and, by a 
vigorous exercise of the whole civil and military power of the common- 
wealth, succeeded in suppressing the insurrection, and in restoring peace. 
His name will ever be honorably associated with this first great vindica- 
tion of law and order within the limits of our American republic. 

Governor Bowdoin's last public service to his country was as a mem- 
ber of the Massachusetts Convention in 1788, by which the Federal Con- 
stitution was ratified, and in the following year he had the happiness of 



GOVERNOR BOWDOIN. 5 

welcoming beneath his own roof his illustrious friend, General Washing- 
ton, on his visit to Boston, as the first President of the United States. 

The little remnant of his life was devoted to literary and philoso- 
phical pursuits. He died on the 6th of November, 1790, at the age of 
sixty-four. His eulogy was pronounced by his friend, Judge Lowell, 
by whom his character was thus admirably summed up : 

" It may be said that our country has produced many men of as much 
genius ; many men of as much learning and knowledge ; many of as mucli 
zeal for the liberties of their country ; and many of as great piety and 
virtue; but is it not rare, indeed, to find those in whom they have all 
combined, and been adorned with his other accomplishments?" 

Governor Bowdoin's wife was Elizabeth Ewing, a lady of most 
respectable family, and most estimable qualities. By her he left two 
children, James, of whom we shall presently speak, and Elizabeth, who 
married Sir John Temple, Bart., the first diplomatic agent from Great 
Britain to the United States after the Revolution. Sir John died in 
New York, November 17, 1798, aged sixty-seven, and there is a monu- 
ment to his memory in St. Paul's church, in that city. Lady Temple 
died in Boston in 1809. 

4. James Bowdoin, the eldest child and only son of the Governor, 
was born in Boston, September 22, 1752. He was graduated at Har- 
vard College, with the highest honors, before he was twenty years of 
age, and then sailing for England, spent a year at the University of Ox- 
ford, in the study of law. He subsequently passed some years in 
European travel, and was still on the Continent when the news reached 
him of the battle of Lexington, and he hastened home with the hope 
of taking an active part in the struggle of the Revolution. He was 
with Washington on the Heights of Dorchester, and crossed over in the 
game boat with him to Boston when the British evacuated the town on 
the 17th of March, 1776. The state of his health, however, did not 
permit him to join the army, and lie continued for some time to reside 
with his father, to aid him in his important political duties. He after- 
wards removed to Dorchester, and occupied the beautiful site now known 
as Mount Bowdoln. 



6 THE GRANAKT BURIAL GROUND. 

In 1788, he represented the town of Dorchester in the Convention of 
Massachusetts, and united with his father in advocating the adoption of 
the Federal Constitution. 

He was repeatedly a member of the House of Representatives, 
Senate, and Executive Council, of his native State, and took an active 
part in the business of legislation. In 1804, Mr. Bowdoin was appointed 
by President Jeflferson, Minister Plenipotentiary to the court of Madrid, 
and in 1806 he was associated with General Armstrong in a special com- 
mission for the settlement of all territorial and other questions with that 
court. He remained abroad in these capacities about four years, when 
continued ill health compelled him to seek a release from further public 
service. 

On his return home, Mr. Bowdoin devoted himself to agi-iculture, 
and his farm at Dorchester, and his beautiful estate at Nashaun Island, 
were the scenes of his principal occupations. He was among the very 
earliest as well as largest importers of the pure Merino stock, and took 
great pains in improving his own flocks and inculcating the importance 
of doing so upon others. He translated and published, for this purpose, 
Daubenton's "Advice to Shepherds and Owners of flocks on the care and 
management of Sheep ;" which was then esteemed a work of great value. 
He had previously published, anonymously, his " Opinions respecting the 
commercial intercourse between the United States and Great Britain." 

Mr. Bowdoin, as well as his father, had always taken a deep interest 
in the cause of education, and both of them were for several years Fel- 
lows of the Corporation of Harvard College. Governor Bowdoin was 
the founder of the Bowdoin Prizes at Cambridge. His son was a large 
patron of the College at Brunswick, Maine, bestowing upon it valuable 
lands during his lifetime, and bequeathing to it, by his will, an extensive 
and costly collection of books, paintings, minerals, and philosophical 
apparatus, together with the reversion of several estates, and of which 
the college has recently received about thirty or forty thousand dollars. 
The college is known to the country as Bowdoin College. 

Mr. Bowdoin died at Nashaun Island, on the 11th of October, 1811. 
His eulogy was pronounced before the trustees and overseers of Bowdoin 



GOVERNOR BOWDOIN. 7 

College by the Rev. Dr. Jenks, then Secretary of the Board, who pre- 
sented his character as " a rare union of benevolent feelings, with ample 
means to indulge them." 

Mr. Bowdoin married his cousin, the daughter of the Hon. William 
Bowdoin, the Governor's brother. They had no children. A portion 
of their property was left to the second son of the late Hon. Thomas L. 
Winthrop, who had married the eldest daughter of Sir John Temple, 
and whose son was, therefore, the great-nephew of Mr. and Mrs. Bowdoin. 
He comes next in order among the tenants of the Bowdoin Tomb. Hav- 
ing dropped the name of Winthrop, agreeably to his uncle's will, he was 
known from early youth by the name of 

5. James Bowdoin. He was born in Boston on the 23d day of 
July, 179-i, and having been prepared at Philips' Academy, Andover, 
was graduated at Bowdoin College in 1814. He studied law with the 
Hon. William Prescott, but never entered largely into the practice. His 
life was devoted to literary and historical pursuits. He was a member 
of the Legislature of Massachusetts, a very active member of the Mas- 
sachusetts Historical Society, and was connected for a long time with 
the immediate management of the Provident Institution for Savings, in 
Boston. His health was never strong, and he died in Havana, whither 
he had gone for relief from pulmonary affections, on the 6th day of 
March, 1833, at the age of thirty-eight years. He had accumulated 
stores of learning, which would have done credit to a long life ; and he 
will be remembered by many friends as a scholar, a Christian, and a 
philanthropist. 

This tomb is believed to contain the ashes of all the Bowdoins who 
have here been mentioned. The bodies of Governor Bowdoin, of his 
son, the Hon. James Bowdoin and his wife Sarah Bowdoin, of Lady 
Elizabeth Temple, and of Mr. James Bowdoin (Winthrop), are known 
to have been placed here ; and there is no reason to doubt that Pierre 
Baudouin, the humble Huguenot emigrant, with his son, the successful 
and eminent Boston merchant, may have found their last resting place 
here also. It is not often, perhaps, that a brighter succession of exam- 
ples is designated by a single tablet. 



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HERE LYES BURIED 

THE BODY OF 

MR. ANDREW CUNNINGHAM, 

WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE 

APRIL 27TH, 1752, 

IN THE60TH YEAR OF HIS AGE. 



HERE LIES BURIED 

THE BODY OF 

MRS. MARY CUNNINGHAM, 

WIDOW OF 

MR. AND'W CUNNINGHAM, 

DEC'D JULY 14TH, 1774, AGED 85. 



HERE LIES THE BODY OF 

MRS. SARAH EVELETH, 

WIFE OF MR. DANIEL EVELETH. 

WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE APRIL 29TH, 1768, 

IN THE42D YEAR OF HER AGE. 



No. 112. 
DOCTOR WILLIAM SPOONER. 



HEER LYETH THE BODY OF CAP. PEER OLIVER, 

AGED 62 YEARS, WHO LIVED MUCH BELOVED, 

AND DYED MUCH LAMENTED, ON THEllTH DAY OF 

APRIL ANNO. 1670. 

HERE LYETH INTERRD, ALL ACTION, RESOLUCON, 

RELIGION, PITTY, VNDER DISSOLUCON. 



No. 113. 
WILLIAM MUNROE AND JOSEPH BAXTER'S. 



THOMAS BUMSTEAD'S TOMB, 1787 



INSCRIPTIONS. 
No. 147. 

M. DALTON'S TOMB, l§a3. 

[Inscription on top illegible save date, Anno Dora. 1708. Under a tree.J 



S. HIGHBORN, SEN.'S TOMB, ITTG, 



HERE LYETH YE BODY OF 

THOMAS BUMSTED, SENYER, 

AGED 67 YEARS, DEPARTED 

THIS LIFE YE22D DAY OF 

JUNE, IN YE YEAR 1677. 



HERE LYETH YE BODY OF 

SUSANAH BUMSTED, WIFETO 

THOMAS BUMSTED, SENR., 

AGED77 YEARS. DEPARTED THIS 

LIFE YE12 DAY OF JULY, 1688. 



TO THE MEMORY OF 

THE HON. JOHN ERVING, ESQ. 

WHO DIED AUG'ST 20TH, 1786, 

AGED 93 YEARS. 

[Slate stone tablet, set in ground.] 



MR. THOMAS PARKER, HIS TOMB, NOV'R 2, 1771. 



No. 3. 
THOMAS HANDASYD PECK, 177L 



No, 119. 

[Name obliterated by metal tool.] 



No. 8. 
MELATIAH BOURN'S TOMB. 



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No. 120. 
JEREMIAH LEE AND G. WINTHROP GRAY. 



No. 5. 
MARY ROBERTS, 1812. 



No. 7. 

Belongs to 

EZEKIEL PRICE. 



[Marble tablet, sculptured arch; ■within, PAYNE, in large letters, beneath 
coat-of-arms.] 



No. 6. 
MARTIN GRAY'S TOMB, 1772. 



No. 9. 
JOSEPH LEE AND GEORGE CABOT'S TOMB. 



No. 5. 

HERE LIES INTERRED THE BODY OF 

ONESIPHOUS TILESTON, 

WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE NOV'R 27TH, 1771, 

AGED 61 YEARS. 



INSCRIPTIONS. 1 1 

No. 127. 
DEAC'N JOHN BARRETT'S TOMB. 



JOHN B. AND CHARLES HAMMATT. 



No, 8. 
ANDREW CUNNINGHAM AND URIAH COTTING'S TOMB, 1809. 



No. 3. 
WELLS COVERLEY'S TOMB, 1812. 



No. 7. 
ISRAEL THORNDIKE'S TOMB, 1812. 



No. 2. 
CAPT. JOHN GORE, 1772. 



No. 6. 
E DWARD BLAKE, JUNR.'S TOMB, 1815. 



Original No. 5.— No. 133. 
MARTIN SMITH. 



12 GRANAKY BURIAL GROUND. 



THOMAS GUSHING, 

LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR OF MASSACHUSETTS, 

DIED 19 JANUARY, 1788, 

AGED 63 YEARS. 

HE TOOK AN ACTIVE PART IN YHE REVOLUTIONARY CONFLICT, 

AND WAS SEVERAL YEARS 

SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF MASS., 

UNTIL HE BECAME 

A MEMBER OF THE CONTINENTAL CONGRESS, 

IN THE YEAR 1774 &, 5. 

DEBORAH FLETCHER, 

WIDOW OF THOMAS CUSHING, 

DIED IN 1790, 

AGED 63 YEARS. 

HENRY NEWMAN, 

DIED NOVEMBER 28, 1811, 

AGED 56 YEARS. 

DEBORAH, WIDOW OF 

HENRY NEWMAN, AND DAUGHTER OF THOMAS CUSHING, 

DIED MAY 9, 1845, IN HER83D YEAR. 

" Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God." 



Note. — The ahove inscription is on a beantiful white marble obelisk over the tcm^ 
of Lieutenant-governor Cushing. Erected in 1846 by his grandson, Henry Newman, 
Ashburton Place, Boston. 



LIEUT.-GOVERNOR THOMAS GUSHING. 

Thomas CusrirxG, LL. D., was the son of Thomas Gushing, Speaker 
of the House of Representatives of Mass. (who was son of Thomas C, 
a member of the Council, aud a dcsceudant of Matthew C, of Hiugham). 
He was born in Boston, January 30, 1694, graduated at Harvard Col- 
lege in 1711, and died April 11, 1746, aged fifty-two. His wife was 
the daughter of Edward Bromficld. He left one son and two daughters. 
He was distinguished by his wealth, his abilities, his zeal for his coun- 
try's service, his integrity, and in a peculiar manner for his piety. Mr. 
Prince says of him, " I found that, iu a small, relaxed, and feeble body, 
there dwelt a great, a lively, a strong, and well composed soul." About 
the age of twenty his soul was renewed by the Spirit of God. He daily 
read the Scriptures and prayed in his family, and he died in joyful hope. 
The revival of religion in Boston, a few years before his death, gave him 
great delight. 

In regard to public men iu days of difficulty, he said, " Men may be 
a long while great patriots from moral or political principles; or party 
or worldly interests ; or the applause or esteem of others. But there is 
nothing like the special grace of God, a believing view of his present 
eye and future judgment, and an interest and conscience wholly subjected 
to Him, to keep men steady to the public interest in times of trial." — 
{Princess Funeral Sermon). 

Lieutenant-Governor Cushing was born in 1725, and was graduated 
at Harvard College iu 1744. In early life he was called to respectable 
public offices. Having been chosen representative of Boston in the 



14 THE GRANARY BURIAL GROUND. 

General Court, his patriotism and talents soon procured him the appoint- 
ment of Speaker. While in the chair, it was resolved, in the controversy 
with England, to make an appeal to arms, and he bent all his exertions 
to promote the cause of his country. He was a judicious and active 
member of the first and second Congress. 

On his return to his own State, he was elected into the Council 
which then constituted the supreme executive. He was also appointed 
Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, and of Probate in Suffolk, which 
stations he held until the adoption of the State Constitution. Being then 
appointed Lieutenant-Governor, he remained in that office till his death, 
having had the satisfaction, a few days before, of seeing the new Federal 
Constitution ratified in Massachusetts. 

One of his daughters married John Avery, Secretary of State, who 
died June, 1806. He was from youth a professor of religion; the 
motives of the gospel governed him through life, and at the hour of his 
departure from the world, its sublime doctrines and its promises gave 
him support. He was a man of abilities ; a distinguished patriot ; a 
friend of learning ; charitable to the poor, and amiable in all the rela- 
tions of life. His days were passed in constant exertion for the public 
good. — American Museum^ VII. 163, 164; Sentinel^ March 1, 1788; 
Prince's funeral sermon. 



GOVERNOR BELLINGHAM. 

GovERXOR Bellingiiam was a native of England, where he was bred 
a lawyer. He came to this country in 1634, and August 3 was received 
into the church, with his wife Elizabeth, and in the following year was 
chosen Deputy-Governor. In 1641 he was elected Governor, in opposi- 
tion to Mr. Winthrop, by a majority of six votes ; but the election did 
not seem to be agreeable to the General Com-t. He was re-chosen to 
this office in 1654, and after the death of Governor Endicot, was again 
elected in i\Iay, 1665. He continued Chief Magistrate of Massachusetts 
during the remainder of his life. He was Deputy-Governor thirteen 
years, and Governor ten. In 1664, he was chosen Major-General. In 
this year the King sent four commissioners, Nicholas, Cartwright, Carr, 
and Maverickj to regulate the affiiirs of the colonies. A long account 
of their transactions is given by Hutchinson. Bellingham, and others 
obnoxious to the King, were required to go to England to answer for 
themselves; but the General Court, by the advice of the ministers, 
refused compliance, and maintained the charter rights. But they 
appeased his ]\Iajesty by sending him " a ship load of masts." He died 
December 7, 1672, aged eighty years, leaving several children. Of his 
singular second marriage, in 1641, the following is a brief history : a 
young gentlewoman was about to be contracted to a friend of his, with 
his consent, " when on a sudden the Governor treated with her and 
obtained her for himself." He failed to publish the contract where he 
dwelt, and he performed the marriage ceremony himself. The Great 
Inquest presented him for a breach of the order of Court ; but at the 



16 THE GRANARY BURIAL GROUND. 

appointed time of trial, not choosing to go oflF from the bench to answer 
as an offender, and but few magistrates being present, he escaped any 
censure. 

His excuse for this marriage was, " the strength of his affection." 
In his last will he gave certain farms, after his wife's decease, -and his 
whole estate at Winisimet, after the decease of his son and his son's 
daughter, for the annual encouragement of " godly ministers and preach- 
ers " attached to the principles of the first church, " a main one whereof 
is, that all ecclesiastical jurisdiction is committed by Christ to each 
particular organical church, from which there is no appeal." The Gen- 
eral Court, thinking the rights of his family were impaired, set aside 
the will. His sister, Anne Hibbins, sister of William Hibbins, an 
assistant, was executed as a witch in June, 1656. Hubbard speaks of 
Bellingham as " a very ancient gentleman, having spun a very long 
thread of above eighty years; he was a great justiciary, a notable hater 
of tribes, firm and fixed in any resolution he entertained, of larger com- 
prehension than expression ; like a vessel whose vent holdeth no good 
proportion with its capacity to contain disadvantage to a public person." 

He did not harmonize with the other assistants ; yet they respected 
his character and motives. Governor Bellingham lived to be the only 
surviving patentee named in the Charter. He was severe against those 
who were called sectaries ; but he was a man of incorruptible integrity, 
and of acknowledged piety. In the ecclesiastical controversy, which 
was occasioned in Boston by the settlement of Mr. Davenport, he was 
an advocate of the first church. — Hutchinson, I. 41, 43, 97, 211, 269; 
NeaVs History, I. 390 ; Mather's 3Iag. II. 18 ; Holmes, I. 414 ; Sav- 
age's Winthrop, II. 43; History Coll. U. S., III. 143., VI. 610. 



INSCRIPTIONS. 17 



[Marble slab, resting on six pedestals springing from another marble slab, on 
which is the following inscription :] 

HERE LIES 

RICHARD BELLINGHAM, ESQUIRE, 

LATE GOVERNOR IN THE COLONY OF MASSACHUSETTS, 

WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE ON THE 7 DAY OF DECEMBER, 1672. 

THE EIGHTY-FIRST YEARE OF HIS AGE. 

virtue's fast friend within this tomb doth lye, 
a foe to bribes, but rich in charity. 



THE BELLINGHAM FAMILY BEING EXTINCT, 

THE SELECTMEN OF BOSTON IN THE YEAR 1782, 

ASSIGNED THIS TOMB TO 

JAMES SULLIVAN, ESQ. 

THE REMAINS OF GOVERNOR BELLINGHAM 

ARE HERE PRESERVED, 

AND THE ABOVE INSCRIPTION IS RESTORED 

FROM THE ANCIENT MONUMENT. 



18 THE GRANAKY BURIAL GROTTND. 



THE FAMILY TOMB OF 
JAMES SULLIVAN, ESQ. 

LATE GOVERNOR AND COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF OF THE 

COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS, WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE 

ON THE lOTH DAY OF DEC'R, A. D. 1808, 

AGED 64 YEARS. HIS REMAINS ARE HERE DEPOSITED. 

DURING A LIFE OF REMARKABLE INDUSTRY, ACTIVITY, AND USEFULNESS, 

AMIDST PUBLIC AND PRIVATE CONTEMPORANEOUS AVOCATIONS, 

UNCOMMONLY VARIOUS, 

HE WAS DISTINGUISHED FOR ZEAL, INTELLIGENCE, AND FIDELITY. 

PUBLIC-SPIRITED, BENEVOLENT, AND SOCIAL, 

HE WAS EMINENTLY BELOVED AS A MAN, EMINENTLY ESTEEMED AS A 

CITIZEN, AND EMINENTLY RESPECTED AS A MAGISTRATE. 

HUlC VERSATILE INGENIUM SIC 
PARITER AD OMNIA FUIT, UT, AD ID UNUMDICERES 
QUOD CUM QUE AGERET. 



INSCRIPTIONS. 19 

No. 4. 
EBENEZER TORREY'S TOMB, 1815. 

[Hard sand slab, and sides of same, with iio insertion. At end, aiuis on blue slate.] 



WILLIAM RICHARDSON'S TOMB, 1814. 



No. 1. 
MARTIN SMITH, 1810. 



HERE LYETH ENTOMED 

MRS. HANNAH ALLEN, WIFE TO MR. JAMES ALLEN, 

AGED 21 YEARS. DECEASED FEBRUARY 26, 1667. 

AND MRS. ELIZABETH ALLEN, 

WIFE TO MR. JAMES ALLEN, AGED 35 YEARS. 

DECEASED APRIL YE 5, 1673. 

STAY! THOU THIS TOMB THAT PASSETH BY, 

AND THINK HOW SOON THAT THOU MAY'ST DIE: 

IF SEX, OR AGE, OR VIRTUE BRIGHT 

WOULD HAVE PROLONG'D TO THESE, IT MIGHT, 

THOUGH VIRTUE MADE NOT DEATH TO STAY: 

YET * * * IT WAS TO BE THEIR WAY. 

AND IF WITH THEM THOU WOULDST BE BLEST, 

PREPARE TO DYE BEFORE THOU REST. 

[In the left-hand corner of the slab :] 
f 

JAMES ALLEN, 
DIED SEPT. YE 22D, 1710. AETATIS SUA 79. 



20 



THE GRANAEY BUEIAL GROUND. 



EBEN'R WELLS' FAMILY TOMB. 

[On the bottom edge of the slab.] 

JAMES, THE SON OF JOHN AND ELIZABETH ALLEN, 

DEC'D JUNE YE 28, 1698, AGED U WEEKS. 



HERE LYES BURIED 

THE BODY OF 

MR. RICHARD SURCOMB, 

OB'TSISTAUG'ST, 

1773. 

/ETATIS 57. 



HERE LYES BURIED 

THE BODY OF MRS. 

MEHITABEL BUTTOLPH, 

WIFE TO MR. JOHN BUTTOLPH, 

AGED 61 YEARS. 

DIED JAN. YE 22D, 1774. 



[ Here is a red sandstone slab, resting on the ground, the foundation being gone. 
No inscription.] 



HERE LYETH INTERED THE BODY OF THE 

REVEREND AND FAITHFULL MINISTER 

OF THE GOSPEL IN BOSTON, 

MR. JOHN BAYLY, 

AGED 54 YEARS, WHO 
DECEASED THE 12 OF DECEMBER, 1697. 



[On a sandstone slab, covering the tomb, with iron door at the end — very ancient, 
a gravestone thrown at the foot of the door. On the right-hand corner (face) of the 
slab, in large made characters, W * W., and something else illegible on third line.] 



INSCRIPTIONS. 21 

WILLIAM TAYLOR, JUNE 19th, 1788. 

DIED APRIL 17, 1838, /ET. 75 YEARS. 

[Slab over tomb.] 



THE TOMB OF JACOB TIDD, 1811. 



1807, ISAAC WHITE'S TOMB. 



1807. CHARLES GUILD, JOSEPH WILLETT, AND JABEZ 
DULLARD'S TOMB. 



HERE LYETH BURYED YE BODY OF 

ANN SMITH, 

YE LATE WIFE OF JEREMIAH SMITH, WHO 

DEPARTED THIS LIFE NOVEMBER YE 29, IN YE 

34 YEARE OF HER AGE, 1700. 

[On a grave-stone broken off and leaning against the Cashing tomb (all even 
caps), but letters are smaller than rest, because they run out under the side ornament 
of the stone.] 



[Hard sandstone slab on brick foundation, wnth a lozenge-shaped slate-stone lot in 
on its surface, bearing the following:] 

THE TOMB OF JOHN F. WILLIAMS, ROB'T WILLIAMS, 

AND MARY LANE. 



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[White marMe stone, like gravestone.] 
TOMB OF SAMUEL ELIOT. 



[Slate stone, similar to above.] 

MICHAEL ROULSTONE, THOS. REDMAN'S AND ASA PAGE'S 

TOMB, 1807. 



[Sandstone slab, nearly on tbe ground, bearing S. S. ANDREWS, 
another Ime, nearly obliterated and illegible.] 



[Marble, like gravestones, bearing] 

FRANKLIN SMITH'S TOMB, 1807. 

[And on the other side,] 

THIS TOMB FORMERLY BELONGED TO 

SAMUEL LEGG, ESQ. 



[Gravestone broken off, leaning against the preceding.] 

HERE LYES YE BODY OF 

ELIZABETH *****■■** 

AGED ABOUT 75 YEARS, DIED DECR. YE 20,1710. 



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GOVERNOR THOMAS DUDLEY. 

Governor Dudley was descended from the owners of Dudley Castle, 
in Stafifordshire, who had borne the surnames and titles of Fitz Ausculph, 
a General of the Norman Conqueror, in 10G6 ; Paganel, Lord of Dudley, 
in 1210 ; and Baron of Dudley, in l'2'2l ; De Sutton, Baron of Dudley, 
in 1370 ; Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, in the reign of Henry V. ; 
Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter, and Treasurer of the 
King's household, in the reign of Henry VI. ; and Dudley, Baron 
of Dudley, which name was assumed according to the custom of those 
times, by several of the Suttons, put of regard for the title and castled 
home of their fathers. In the will of Governor Dudley, preserved in 
the Probate Office of Suflfolk County, Mass., is his family coat of arms 
stamped with his seal ; and his son, Governor Joseph Dudley, used the 
same arms to seal some of his official documents, one of which the writer 
has seen recently in Boston. It is the coat of arms borne by the Suttons 
and Dudleys of Dudley Castle, by John Dudley, Duke of Northumber- 
land, Robert, Earl of Leicester, and other branches of the same family. 

Governor Thomas Dudley was born in the county of Northampton, 
England, A. D. 157G. His father was " Captain Roger Dudley, who 
was slain in the wars," probably in the Netherlands, about 1580, when 
this his only son ancf an only daughter were very young. The wife of 
Captain Roger Dudley and mother of thia son and daughter, was a rela- 
tive to Judge Augustine Nicolls, of Faxton, Kt., whose sister Margery^ 
wife of William Purifoy, was probably that Mrs. Purifoy, " a gentle- 
woman of wisdom and piety, who, with other friends, took special charge 



24 THE GKANARY BURIAL GROUND. 

of him even in his childhood," and by whose care he was trained up in a 
Latin school where he acquired the rudiments of grammar, which he im- 
proved afterwards by his own industry, so that he became a good Latin 
scholar. His estate, which had been left in trust for him, was not large, 
but five hundred pounds at last came to light, having been long concealed 
in some unknown hand, and was duly delivered to him when he became 
of age. 

While yet a stripling, — both his parents being dead, and his sister 
too for aught appears to the contrary — he was by his best friends pre- 
ferred to an oflGice in the household of the Earl of Northampton,* in 
whose family he had opportunity to learn the manners and etiquette of 
high life. He lived with this nobleman till of a suitable age, and then 
received the appointment of clerk to Judge Nicolls, " who being his 
kinsman, took the more special notice of him." Being a young gentle- 
man of good abilities, he soon learned much skill in the law, and could 
fill with honor the place of a secretary. 

Though now qualified to undertake business of considerable moment, 
and live independently in the world, yet before any opportunity called 
him to put in practice what he had learned to do with his pen, he was 
called to attempt something by his sword. For being well known in 
his neighborhood, and esteemed for his courage and judgment. Queen 
Elizabeth sending him a captain's commission, perhaps on the suggestion 
of the Earl of Northampton or some of his family, presently four-score 
young gallants enlisted under him. These he led into Picardy to help 
Henry IV. at the siege of Amiens, in 1597. But when both armies 
were drawn up in battle array, by some good fortune a treaty prevailed, 
which prevented further hostilities at that time Returning to North- 
amptonshire, he married " a gentlewoman of good estate and extraction," 
but of what family is unknown to us. Soon after he became interested 

* It is so stated in Mather's Magnalia, but the author's meaning is not very clear. 
Sir Henry Howard was created Earl of Northampton in 1603, and died about 1614. 
Sir William Compton was created Earl of Northampton August 2, 1618, and died in 
1630. There was no such title existing during Dudley's minority. 



GOVERNOR DUDLEY. 25 

in the Puritan doctrines, and attended the meetings of their Divines, 
Dod, Cleaver, Winston, and llildersham. Puritanism being more 
free from old superstitions than the church founded by Henry VIII., 
and also more reasonable and consistent with nature, Mr. Dudley, 
became a zqalous asserter thereof, and never after swerved from the 
course he had thus early begun. He was a reformer, but many anec- 
dotes might be related of him to show that he was not a fanatic. 
He very much disliked wild opinionists, although himself a stren- 
uous oppugner of conformity and the ceremonies of the Church of 
England. 

By the Rev. Mr. Dodd, it is said, he was introduced to Lord Say 
and Lord Compton, and by them was recommended to the young Earl 
of Lincoln,* Theophilus, who appointed him steward, to manage his 
whole estate. Among Mr. Dudley's successful operations while in the 
service of the young nobleman, was that of procuring a match between 
him and the daughter of Lord Say ; for she was so wise, virtuous, and 
accomplished a lady, that she proved a great blessing to the whole family. 
After continuing nine or ten years in the stewardship of the Earl of 
Lincoln, Mr. Dudley, being wearied with great employments, was willing 
to retire into a more private capacity. Therefore he removed to Boston, 
and became intimatelj'^ acquainted with the Rev, John Cotton, whose 
church he attended. But ere many years, the Earl's affairs again re- 
quired his oversight, for without Mr. Dudley's assistance, he could carry 
on no matter of moment. Returning to the Earl's manor at Sempring- 
liam, in Lincolnshire, he coutinucd there most of the time till his removal 
to New England. 

When the enterprise for planting a colony in the deserts of America 
began, he embraced that opportunity to leave England, that " he might, 
with other non-conformists, enjoy his liberty to the utmost of what he 

• The Right Honorable Ilenr)- Fj-nes, Knight, Lord Clinton and Say, Earl of Lin- 
coln, died in September, 1615. His son, Thomas, was his snccessor, dying January, 
1618, whose son and sncccssor was Theophilus, the fourth Earl of Lincoln, who was 
descended by his great-grandmother, the Countess of Lincoln, from Edmxmd Dudley, 
the great lawj-er and statesman of Henry VTII.'s time. 



26 THE GRANAEY BURIAL GROUND. 

desired." He was one of the five undertakers of Massacliusetts, as they 
are called, who came over with the Charter in 1630. On board the 
Arbella, before the sailing of the fleet * from the harbor of Cowes, at the 
Isle of Wight, Mr. Dudley was chosen Deputy-Governor. In 1632 
some misunderstanding arose between him and Governor Winthrop, 
which led him, in April, to resign his offices of Deputy-Governor and 
Assistant of the Colony. But the Court of Assistants refused to accept 
his resignation, and the ministers and magistrates succeeded in bringing 
about a reconciliation. 

In May, 1634, Mr. Dudley was chosen Governor. " This," says 
Moore, in his lives of the Governors, " was the beginning of a new era 
in the history of the colony. It was the first Legislature in which the 
representative principle was recognized." The General Court, at this 
session, also established a military commission to dispose of all military 
afi"airs. Governor Dudley was placed at the head of this commission, 
having Winthrop, Humphrey, Haynes, Endicott, Coddington, Pynchon, 
Nowell, Bellingham, and Bradstreet for his associates. In 1640, Mr. 
Dudley was again chosen Governor. In 1644, it was ordered that there 
should be a general officer in time of peace, with the title of Sergeant 
Major-General. Dudley was elected to this office, though sixty-eight 
years of age. He was chosen Governor in 1645 and 1650. Having 
always held the office of Governor, Deputy Governor, or Assistant from 
the time of his arrival in America, he was esteemed one of the principal 
pillars of the new Commonwealth, 

" Who spent his state, his strength, and years with care, 
That aftercomers in them might have share." 

He died at his house in Roxbury, the 31st of July, 1653, in the 
seventy-seventh year of his age. Governor Dudley was a wise, energetic, 
and public-spirited man, of the most inflexible integrity, and democratic 
in his political principles and practice. None ever blamed him for aught 
but lor his zeal. Even that can be excused, when we consider the spirit 
of that age, which always esteemed religion as a political concern. He 

* The fleet consisted of four vessels, viz : the Arbellaj- Jewell, Ambrose, and Talbot. 



GOVERNOR DUDLEY. 27 

was well skilled iu the law, and an excellent writer of both prose and 
verse — having an extensive acquaintance with the world and with book«. 
The Kev. Ezekiel Rogers composed a Latin epitaph on Gov. Dudley, 
containing the following sentiments : 

" In books, a prodigal they say ; 
A living Cyclopedia; 
A table-talker, rich in sense, 
And witty without wit's pretence ; 
An able champion in debate, 
Whose words lacked numberf, but not weight. 
Both Catholic and Christian too, 
A soldier, trusty, tried, aud true ; 
Condemned to share the common doom, 
Reposes here in Dudley's tomb." 

Note. — For an account of Governor Dudley's descendants, see "The Dudley 
Genealogies," and the New England Historical and Gen. Register, vols. viii. and ix. 

In the foregoing sketch, free use has been made of an ancient manuscript life of 
Governor D., written by an unknown hand, in the time of his son, Governor Joseph 
Dudley, of whom the author says: "His eldest son by the second marriage is yet sur- 
viving, and may be likely to inherit the father's honor and dignity, as well as his name, 
place, and virtues." 



28 



THE GRANAKY BURIAL GROUND. 



[Hard sandstone slab, with lozenge of slate, bearing arms, and beneath (on sand- 
stone), as follows :] 

LYES INTERRED YE BODY OF 

MARY TUTHILL, 

YE RELICT OF JOHN TUTHILL, AGED * * YEARS, 
WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE SEPTEMBER YE 19tH, 170*. 



HERE LYES INTERRD YE BODY OF 
DEA. THOMAS HUBBART, 

WHO ***** 

DEPARTED THIS LIFE YE 7tH DAY OF 

NOVEMBER, IN YE * * YEAR 

OF HIS AGE, 1717. 



HERE LYES INTERRED YE BODY OF 
MRS. MARY HUBBART, 
OF DEACON THOMAS HUBBART, 
DEPARTED THIS LIFE, 

* * # » 



# # * * 



AUGUST YE 



IN 



* # 



YEAR 



DOMINI, 1720, 

OF HER * * * 



HERE LYES INTERRED YE * * * 

ZECHARIAH TUTHILL. 

[At the bottom of the tablet,] 

HIS * * * 
HERE * * * 



HERE LYES BURIED 

THE BODY OF 

MRS. MARY BRAZER, 

YE WIFE OF MR. EDWARD BRAZER, AGED 38 YEARS 

AND 11 MO. DIED APRIL YE 7TH, 1750. 



INSCRIPTIONS. 29 

[The half of a gravestone, split longitudinally, thrown from the mouth d tomb 
No. 107 (1809), where it hatl been used foraUing up, 12th July, 1850.] 

* • * LYES INTERRED YE * * * • oF 

MRS. ANNA, 

DAUGHTER OF YE ' JOSEPH AND BETH GREEN, 

* * * * A VILLAGE * * • • 

WHO • THIS LIFE YE 8TH * * * ST ANNO DOMINI *•** 

AGED 25 * ** 8 MONTHS. 



IN MEMORY OF 
MARY GYLES, 

GRANDDAUGH'R OF THE LATE WILLIAM WARLAND, DEC'D, 
WHO DIED JUNE 27TH, 1791, AGED 20 YEARS. 
THE SWEET REMEMBRANCE OF THE JUST, 
SHALL FLOURISH WHEN THEY SLEEP IN DUST. 



SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF 

ISAAC STEVENS, ESQ., 

WHO DIED JULY 22, 1839, /ET 62 YEARS. 

A MERCHANT OF PROBITY AND ASSIDUITY ; 

A KIND HUSBAND, GENEROUS FATHER, 

AND WARM FRIEND. 

fWliite marble slab ou granite foundation, one side giving way.] 



30 THE GKANARY BURIAL GROUND. 

[This is a broken foot stone, bearing C APT. THOMAS SMITH, — leaning 
against preceding.] 



[Hard sandstone slab on brick foundation.] 

ENOCH PATTERSON 

AND 

ISAAC ADAMS' TOMB. 1808. 



[Here is a hard sandstone slab on brick foundation, lozenge slate, on which 
nothing is to be seen. Large square cavity below.] 



JOHN YE SON OF JOHN 1 HERE LYES YE BODY OF 

AND MARY COLESWORTHY, JOHN COLESWORTHY, SENOR, 



AGED 2 MO. AND 1 DAY, 

DIED NOVE'M YE 19, 

1696. 



AGED 39 YEARS, 

DIED FEBRUARY YE 7TH, 

1705-6. 



HERE LYETH BURIED YE BODY OF 

RICHARD HUNT, 

WHO SOMETIME LIVED IN PORCHMUTH, IN OLD ENGLAND. 

AGED ABOUT 48 YEARS, DEC'D YE 

26 OF SEPTEMBER, 1682. 



HERE LIES THE BODY OF 

MR. DAVID GARDINER, 

WHO DIED OCTR. YE 28TH, 1760, 
AGED 37 YEARS. 



INS0KIPTI0N8. 31 



[A very thin double stone.] 

WILLIAM WILLIAM 

ELLIS ELLIS 

WILLIAM WILLIAM 

ELLIS ELLIS. 
[No other inscription apparent.] 



HERE LYETH YE BODY OF 

EDWARD ELLIS, 
AGED 74 YEARS, DEC'D APRIL YE 23, 1695. 
[By the side of the preceding.] 



[Hard sandstone slab on brick foundation. Lozenge of slate bearing arms, and 
beneatli, on hard stone :] 

REV. JOSEPH ECKLEY. 



[Here is a hard slate-stone slab on stone foundation — slab broken in two — with a 
sUght, lozenge-shaped depression above end, but neither inscription nor ahm3.] 



HERE LIES YE BODY OF 

MRS. MARY NAZRO, 

THE WIDOW OF DOCTOR MATHEW NAZRO, 

WHO DIED SEPT'R 12TH, 1759, 

IN YE 88TH YEAR OF HER AGE. 



32 THE GRANAEY BURIAL GROUND. 

HERE LYES BURIED THE BODY OF 

MRS. MIRIAM BELL, 

THE WIFE OF MR. DANIEL BELL, JUNR., WHO DIED 
JULY THE 1ST, 1750, AGED 37 YEARS. 



[Hard stone (red) slab, with lozenge of white marble, bearing] 
THE TOMB OF 

WILLIAM DOWNES CHEEVER'S FAMILY. 

REPAIRED BY 

JOHN DERBY, IN 1803. 

[Foundation of brick, with a small oblong slate tablet in the end, bearing] 
JOHN DERBY. 



[Heavy red stone slab, (on foimdation of cobbled slate), a square stone let in at 
the end, bearing a finely chiselled coat of arms, and beneath, in small caps,] 

THE ARMES OF JOHN AND ELIZABETH FREKE. 



ANNA, 

YE DAUGHTER OF EDWARD AND SARAH ELLIS, 

AGED ABOUT 20 YEARS. 

DYED YE 4TH OF DECEMBER, 1678. 



THOMAS WALLEY 




Thomas Walley was born iu England, A. D. 1616, and was settled 
in London as rector of St. Mary's, White Chapel ; he was ejected as a 
non-conformist mider Charles II. and came to America, arriving here 
24th of 3d month, 1662, in ship " Society," Captain John Pierce. 

He was admitted a townsman in Barnstable in .1662, and ordained 
pastor of the church in 1663, " where the Lord was pleased to make him 
a blessed peace-maker, and improve him in the work of hia house there 
till March 24th, 1678, being on Lord's day morning, about forenoon 



34 THE GKANARY BURIAL GROUND. 

meeting time, and then he called him out of this earthly tabernacle, into 
a house not made with hands ; he having preached his last sermon March 
3d, from Ephesians, 5th chapter, 1st and 4th verses." His widow, Mrs. 
Hannah Walley, married Rev. George Shove, of Taunton, and died in 
1685. 

It appears, by the records of St. Mary's Church, Whitechapel, 
London, that John Walley, probably grandfather of Thomas, was buried 
2d April, 1602,* and that two daughters of Thomas and Margery, his 
wife, were born in London, named Mary and Lydia, while Thomas was 
rector of that church. Lydia was baptized April 11, 1650. 

Rev. Thomas Walley preached the annual sermon before the old 
colony Government, 1669. This sermon is still in print. 

Some printed verses, published at the time of his decease, are in 
possession of S. H. Walley. He was twice married, but his descendants 
are by his first wife, Margery, to whom he was married in London, and 
who came with him to this country. Two children were born to them 
after they came to Barnstable, viz : Thomas and John. 

His sons, Thomas and John, were both married and had children. 
Thomas had a son of the same name, who died without issue. John, 
called Major John Walley, was first elected an Assistant in the Govern- 
ment of Plymouth Colony in 1684. He commanded the land forces in 
the disastrous expedition under Sir William Phipps, in Canada, in 1690. 
He was one of the four purchasers of Mount Hope lands. He lived 
awhile at Plymouth and Boston, and removed from Boston in 1680, 
and laid out the town of Bristol on the Mount Hope lands. 

Hannah married Mr. Samuel Allyn, of Barnstable, May 10, 1664. 
She died December 23, 1700. 

John was captain of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery company, 
1679 ; member of the old South Church, 1679 ; of the Council, 1687 
and 1692; Commander in Canada expedition, 1690; Judge of Massa- 

* Timberly's Encyclopedia of Literature, &c., Anecdote, pp. 386-7, states that John 
Walley died January, 1586 He was a printer in London ; he left a son, Robert, of the 
Court of Assistants. His will has been examined in London. He, left an only son. 
Thomas, who may have been the Barnstable minister. This is dated A. D. 1651. 



THOMAS WALLET. 35 

chusetts Supreme Court, June 7, 1700; resigned, 1711 ; died at Boston, 
January 11, 1712, aged sixty-nine. His wife was Sarah. 

Their children were Sarah, John, Hannah, Mary, Elizabeth, Lydia, 
and John. His will is long and full ; gives £100 to Harvard College, 
for pious students. His property was much injured by speculation in 
lands in the county of Bristol. 

His second son, John, was a merchant of Boston, born in Bristol, 
September 11, 1691, and died in Boston, March 6, 1745. He had two 
sons and five daughters. The name of his wife was Bethia Eyre.* Their 
son John was minister at Ipswich, and died at Roxbury without children. 
Their other son, named Thomas, was twice married. His first wife was 
Mary Kneeland, by whom he had one daughter, who survived him, and 
was married and left children and grandchildren. Her name after 
marriage was Langdon. His second wife was Sarah Hurd, by whom he 
had four children, viz. : Thomas, Sally, Charles and Samuel Hall ; all 
of whom married and survived their parents. Thomas had six sons 
and six daughters. Sally married John Phillips, President of the Senate 
of Massachusetts, Mayor of Boston, etc. She had six sons and three 
daughters. Charles had one daughter. Samuel Hall married Miriam 
Phillips, and had three sons and three daughters ; two sons died in in- 
fancy. Samuel Hurd was born August 31, 1805, and married Mehetabel 
Sumner Bates, daughter of Hon. I. C. Bates, of Northampton. They 
had ten children, five sons and five daughters ; of these four sons and three 
daughters survived their mother. She died December 2, A. D. 1853. 
He married January 1, 1855, Annie Gray, daughter of Prince Hawes, 
Esq., of Boston. He was member of Congress in 185-t and '55, and was 
one of that noble band of patriots who voted to the last against the repeal 
of the Missouri Compromise, and was candidate for Governor in 1855. 

It is a remarkable fact, that there have been no surviving collate- 
rals in the male line, but that the descent has been direct from the first 
Thomas Walley to the children of Samuel Hurd Walley, in the male 



* All the children (seven) of John and Bethia Walley, were bom in Boston ; all the 
daiighiers died tmmarried. 



36 THE GKANART BTJRIAL GROUND. 

Thomas, minister of Barnstable, born 1616, died 1677-8. 

John, Judge of Supreme Court and Major-General, born 1643, died 
1711. 

John, merchant, lived in Boston, born 1691, died 1745. 

Thomas, merchant, born and died in Boston; born 1725, died 1806. 

Samuel Hall, merchant, born and lived in Boston ; born 1778, died 
1850. 

Samxjel Hurd, lawyer, born in Boston 1805. 



THIS TOMB OF THE WALLEY FAMILY 
WAS REPAIRED BY 

THOMAS WALLEY, NOV. 1786. 

[Hard sandstone slab, on brick foundation.] 



INSCRIPTIONS. 37 

[Rough marble slab, at one end (chiselled) an altar, bearing on its face I H S, and 
surmounted by a cross. At the right of the altar, a monumental stone, bearbg the 
initials, M. M., and at the left of the altar, a similar representation, with initials, 
EL M. Beneath these ornaments is as follows:] 

ELIZABETH MAGNER, 

DIED OCT'R 3D, 1798, AGED 21 YEARS. 

MARY MAGNER, 

DIED OCT'R 36TH, 1803, AGED 27 YEARS. 

MARGARET MAGNER, 

DIED NOV'R 2D, 1806, AGED 36 YEARS. 

CATHERINE MAGNER, 

DIED APRIL 2D, 1812, AGED 38 YEARS. 

MARY MAGNER, 

WIFE OF JOHN MAGNER, AND MOTHER TO THE AFORESAID, 
DIED DECEMBER 15TH, 1813, AGED 66 YEARS. 

bless'd are the dead, when in the lord they die ; 

they from their labors rest, their works ascend on high; 

like those who have no hope, then do not weep, 

for those you love who in the lord do sleep. 

[These few lines of poetrj- are one size smaller than the preceding portion ol' the 
inscription, in italics ; the lines begin even and end uneven.] 



38 THE GRANARY BURIAL GROUND. 

JOHN MAGNER, 

DIED JAN. 14, 1816, AGED 81 YEARS. 

[Foundation of hammered granite ; in the west side thereof a tablet of polished 
white marble, bearing as follows :] 

EXPECTANTES BEATAM SPEM ET 
MAGNI DEI, HIC JACENT 

GULIELMUS JOHNSON MACDONELL, 

OBIIT DIE III JAN. A. D. MDCCCXLVIN. /ET. LXXIII. 
ET EJUS UXOR, 

LUCIA WATERS MACDONELIi, 

OBIIT DIE XV DEC. A. D. MDCCCXLV. ><ET. LXVII. 
QUORUM ANIMABUS PROPITIETUR DEUS. AMEN. 



[Granite slab on foundation of same.] 

JOHN BROOKS AND JAMES HOOPER, 1812. 



[Leaning against back of preceding.] 

HERE LYES YE BODY OF 

JOHN CUNNINGHAM, 

DIED JAN'RY YE 31, 1718, IN YE 34TH YEAR OF HIS AGE. 



HERE LYES YE BODY OF 

CAPT. JOHN ENGLISH, 

OF LONDON, AGED 33 YEARS, DIED MAY YE lOTH, 1721. 



INSCRIPTIONS. 39 

HERE LYES BURIED YE BODY of^ 

MRS. JOAN BOWRMAN, 
AGED 75 YEARS, WHO DEC'D NOV'R YE IITH, 1729, 



HERE LYETH BURIED YE BODY OF 

MR. WILLIAM HARRIS, 

AGED ABOUT 40 YEARS, DEPARTED THIS LIFE 
YE 17 OF MAY, 1684. 



IN MEMORY OF 

MR. PETER ROBERTS, 
WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE NOV'R 12TH, 1775, /ET. 67. 



HERE LIES BURIED THE BODY OF 

MRS. HANNAH ROBERTS, 
WIFE OF MR. PETER ROBERTS, AGED 37 YEARS, DIED MARCH. 



[One of two stones sunk in the jiroiind, against the back of Peter Roberts.] 
WILLIAM WRIGHT, 
SON TO MR. SAM'L AND MRS. MARY WRIGHT, 
AGED 17 YEARS, DIED OCT'R YE 31ST, 1747. 
[Leaning against tlie back of this stone is the footstone of Mr. ANDREW CUN- 
NINGHAM.] 



40 THE GKANARY BURIAL GROUND. 

HERE LYES BURIED THE BODY OF 
MRS. SARAH PIMM, 
AGED ABOUT 68 YEARS, DEC'D MAY YE 5, 1732. 



HERE LIES YE BODY OF 

MRS. HANNAH PAINE, 

WIFE TO MR. WILL'M PAINE, DEC'D OCT'R YE 17TH, 1735. 

AGED 55 YEARS. 



HERE LYETH BURIED YE BODY OF 

JOHN DOWNING, 

AGED ABOUT 53 YEARS, DEC'D APRIL YE 29TH, 1694. 

[Space, then in small characters,] 

I BARGAIN WITH CHRIST FOR ROOM BELOW, 

HE GRANTS A MANSION IN HIS UPPER STORIE ; 
THUS GOD GIVES MORE THAN WE DO ASK OR KNOW, 
INSTEAD OF GRACE UNINTERRUPTED GLORIE. 



[Two footstones against the back of preceding, one hears, 
MR. CHARLES MORRIS. 



INSCRIPTIONS. 



41 



HERE LIES BURIED 
YE BODY OF 

CAPT. DANIEL PECKER, 

WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE 

OCT. YE 2d, 1750, 

AGED 60 YEARS. 



HERE LYES YE BODY OF 

MARY MORRIS, 

DAU'r TO MR. CHARLES MORRIS, 

AGED ABOUT 2-4 YEARS, 

D E C ' D MAY YE 2 4 T H, 

1730. 



HERE LIES BURIED Yf: BODY OF 

MRS. ELIZABETH PECKER, 

YE WIFE OF 

MR. DANIEL PECKER, 

DIED APRIL YE 26tH, 1752, 

IN YE 28tH \TEAR of her AGE. 



HERE LYES BURIED 
THE BODY OF 

MR. CHARLES MORRIS, 

dec'd nov'r ye 8, 
1730, 

IN the 54 YEAR OF HIS AGE. 



HERE LIES BURIED THE BODY OF 

MRS. ESTHER MORRIS, 

AVIFE OF MR- CHARLES MORRIS, 

dec'd SEPT. 12th, 1755, aged 79 years. 
(By the side of preceding, all even caps, and the lines wide apart.] 



HEKE lyes ye BODY OF 

MARY POLLARD, 

LATE WIFE TO SAMUEL POLLARD, AGED 56 YEARS AND 6 MO. 

DIED sep'r ye 30, 1706. 



42 THE GEANARY BURIAL GROUND. 

LEVERET AND PHILLIP'S TOMB. 
MR. NICHOLAS BUTOLPH'S TOMB. 

HERE LYES YE BODY OF 

MR. NICHOLAS BUTOLPH, 

AGED 68 YEARS, 
DEC'D JAN'RY YE 29, 1736-7 

MR. KNIGHT LEVERETT, 

DIED JULY UTH, 1753, AGED 50 YEARS. 
HERE LYETH ****** YE BODY OF 

M**. MARY, 

WIFE TO MR. NICHOLAS BUTOLPH, 

AGED 51 YEARS, DEC'D AUGUST YE 1ST, 1728. 



MARY, 

DAUT. TO 

JOHN AND MARY PHILLIPS, 



MARY PHILLIPS, 

aged 4 years and 8 mo. 

dec'd 



AGED 9 MO. MARCH YE 20tH, 

dec'd JUNE YE 19, 1726. ' 1735-6. 

JOSEPH PHILLIPS, 
AGED 5 WEEKS, DYED MARCH 4tH, 1744-5. 



ABIGAIL PHILLIPS, 
AGED 7 MONTHS, 

dec'd APRIL 15th, 1733. 



MARY PHILLIPS, 
AGED 25 DAYS, 

DIED SEPT. 27th, 1738. 



GOVERNOR JOHN LEVERETT. 

'* His words were laws, his laws were put in force, 

" His force was justice, &; ye noble source 

" Of all his actions was his noble soul, 

" In wt' all vertucs LivM without Coutroul." 

John Leverett, of whom the poet sings so bravely, was a man of 
no small renown, and figured largely in the early history of the colony 
of Massachusetts. He was the only son of Elder Leverett, and was born 
in England, in the year 161G. At the age of eighteen, he came with his 
father to Boston. In 1G30, he was married to Miss Hannah Hudson, 
who died some time in 1643. In 1C45, he was again married, his bride 
being Miss Sarah Sedgwick, daughter of Major General Robert Sedg- 
wick, by whom he had twelve children. This " daughter of Ashcr,^^ as 
Cotton Mather styles her, in his sermon preached on the occasion of her 
interment, outlived her husband many years, and died at the great age 
of seventy-four. 

Mr. Leverett was admitted to the freedom of the Massachusetta 
colony in 1640, from which time to his decease he took an active part in 
its politics and military proceedings, and passed througli every grade and 
rank on the list of each. His early life was passed in mercantile pur- 
suits; but this did not hinder his entering into the military profession, 
and as early as 1639, " he became a member of the Ancient and Honor- 
able Artillery Company," having previously been a member of the 
" Boston Train Band.'' His rise was rapid, pa.ssing through every grade 
from sergeant to captain. For ten years previous to 1673, when he was 



44 THE GRANARY BURIAL GROUND. 

elected governor, he served in the important rank of major-general of 
the Massachusetts militia. 

As a military commander he was brave and grand, and disported 
himself at the head of his troops, in their bloodless forays, " with great 
becomingness, and with the air of one bent on conquest ; " and had 
there been occasion for the display of valor on the battle field, he would, 
doubtless, have been the bravest among the brave. 

But his gift at cut and thrust and other military accomplishments, 
seems not to have been his only forte. His pen earned him many lau- 
rels, and his voice was powerful in the councils of the colony, as well as 
at the head of an army. In 1651 he was chosen selectman for the town 
of Boston. For six years, from 1660 to 1665, he served as delegate to 
the General Court, two of which years he acted as speaker of the House 
of Delegates. In 1665, he was called from that body to serve as an 
assistant, and on the 31st of May, 1671, he was elected deputy-governor. 
This office he held but two years, and on the demise of Governor Bel- 
lingham, he was called by the unanimous voice of the freemen of the 
colony to occupy the gubernatorial chair — a seat which he filled until 
his death, in 1678. 

The robes of office were worn by Governor Leverett with great dig- 
nity, and without ostentation, while he discharged the duties which 
devolved upon him with such a combination of firmness and prudence, 
as to justify the eulogy contained in the quaint verse at the head of this 
article. He was a man of great modesty, and ever lived, as he died, one 
of the straitest of the puritanic church, of which he was for nearly a half 
century a consistent member. 

He died on the 16th of March, 1678-9, in the midst of his laborious 
and honorable usefulness, and in the full strength of his ripening man- 
hood, and was interred in a state of pomp and ceremony, which, while its 
description is amusing to us, was, doubtless, " imposing and solemn " to 
the mourners on that sad occasion. Over the grave of this modest man 
was placed the following inflated and high-sounding epitaph, which, could 
the good governor himself have read, would doubtless have brought the 
crimson into his face. 



TO Y" SACRED MEMORY OF 

N. E.'s HEROE, MARS HIS GENERALL, 

VERTUE'S STANDARD-BEARER, & LEARNING'S GLORY, 

Y^ FAITHFULLY PIOUS, & PIOUSLY FAITHFULL 

SUBJECT TO Y"^^ GREAT 

MAJESTY OF HEAVEN & EARTH, 

Y^ EXPERIENCED SOULDIER IN Y^- CHURCH MILITANT, 

LATELY LISTED 

IN Y^ INVINCIBLE TRIUMPHANT 

ARMY OF Y^- LORD OF HOSTS, 

y" deservedly woksiiipfull 

JN^ LEVERETT, Esq«, 

Y^ JUST, PRUDENT & IMPARTIALL 

GOVERNO'^ OF 

Y= MATTACHUSETTS COLONY IN N-E, 

WHO SURRENDRED TO Y^ ALL CONQURERING 

COMMAND OF DEATH, 

MARCH. 16. ANNO DOM: 167$ 

ET ^TATIS SU^ 63. 



URIAH COTTING. 

Uriah Cotting was the only son of Uriah Cotting, an innholder of 
Waltham, Mass., and was born at that place Sept. 29, 1766. His pa- 
rents died when he was young, and he was left to the care of his uncle, 
Dr. Amos Cotting, of Marlborough, with whom his early life was spent. 
With no extraordinary advantages of wealth or education, he possessed 
buoyant spirits, invincible good-humor, genius of the highest order, and 
mental endowments, rarely found united. 

Removing to the metropolis, he formed a co-partnership with Mr, 
John Amory, and was for some years in business at the southerly part 
of the city. 

But he could not long remain contented with so limited a sphere of 
activity and usefulness. 

It has been well said of him, that he was " an industrious and prac- 
tical philosopher," and his tastes led him to devote his life to projects 
for the improvement of Boston. 

These were so vast and novel, as at first to excite doubts and preju- 
dice, but his minute and thorough knowledge of all details connected 
with their successful execution, his indomitable energy in overcoming, and 
his exhaustless ingenuity in avoiding obstacles, never failed at last to 
awaken confidence and inspire enthusiasm. Of the strictest integrity 
and the most liberal disposition, his sagacity, enterprise, and public 
spirit were unrivalled. 

The resources of the community were at his command, and they were 
used for the noblest ends. Had he lived, he would himself, doubtless, 



URIAH COTTING. 47 

have become one of our wealthiest citizens. But excessive labors under- 
mined a constitution naturally delicate, and exhausted a frame which 
was always slender, and in the midst of many unfinished plans, admira- 
ble as those he had lived to execute, he fell a victim to consumption, at 
the age of 53 years (May 9th, 1819); and such was the extreme depres- 
sion of property at the time of his decease, that his estate proved insol- 
vent, though a few years before, and also a few years afterwards, a very 
large surplus could have been realized from it after payment of all his 
debts. Thus unfortunate, for himself and his family, was the final result 
of all his far-reaching thought and his life of unwearied activity. 

But rich, indeed, is the harvest whicli the community has derived 
from his labors. Our city has been beautified, its commercial facilities 
extended, and its area and its taxable property increased through his in- 
strumentality. Faneuil Hall will bear down to the latest times the 
name of a private citizen, in acknowledgment of a single munificent act^ 
QuiNCY Market will ever be a memorial of our most efficient public offi- 
cer. This stone is the only monument of Uriah Cottixg. But as long 
as traffic shall find a home on the extensive wharves which he built, with 
their ranges of warehouses,' and in the spacious streets which he laid out 
and constructed," or which, after his death, others completed in almost 
exact accordance with his designs made a quarter of a century before,' 
and, above all, as long as the Western Avenue shall stand, redeeming 
from old ocean a vast tract of land for the habitations of our citizens, 
and itself the most beautiful approach to our city, so long shall Uriah 
(JOTTING be gratefully remembered as the Chief Benefactor of Boston. 

' Central Wharf, with its 'A stores, and India ^V^larf with its G2 stores. 

• Broad street, India street, and Conihill. 

' Comniercial street, from State street to Lewis's \\'harf. 



48 THE GRANARY BURIAL GROUND. 

MRS. LYDIA KNEELAND, 1768. 

[Footstone against back of Charles Morris.] 

HERE LIES THE BODY OF 
MRS. LYDIA KNEELAND, 

THE WIFE OF MR. SOLOMON KNEELAND, 
SHE DEPARTED THIS LIFE NOVR. 6tH, 1768, 
AGED 61 YEARS. 
[D in departed of tlie same size as small letters.] 



IN MEMORY OF 
MASTER JOSIAH LANGDON, 

SON OF DOCT'R JOSIAH &, MRS. DOROTHY LANGDON, 

WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE JULY 23d, 1793, 

AGED 15 YEARS, 5 MONTHS AND 13 DAYS. 

[The M in Master and S in Son are smaller caps than those in the name ; the let- 
ters in Master are smaller than those of the other words. Footstone,] 
JOSIAH LANGDON, 1793. 



HERE LYETH 

YE BODY OF 

JOHN COWEL, 

AGED ABOUT 49 YEARS, 
DIED DECEM. YE 8, 

1693. 



HERE LYES THE BODY OF 
MRS. HANNAH COWEL, 

WIDDOW OF MR. JOHN COWEL, AGED 
73 YEARS, 

dec'd dec'r ye 7th 
1713. 



[Footstone, top broken ofiF, and no inscription. J 



INSCRIPTIONS. 49 

[A large stone, oue arch at the top, but divides thus below the ornaments.] 
HERE LYES YE BODY OF 

MRS. ELIZABETH MACCARTY, 

WIFE TO MR. TilADEUS MACCARTY, AGED 82 YEARS, 
DIED JUNE YE 7tH, 1723. 
[The foregoing is under one arch, and the following is under the other] 
HERE LYES YE BODY OF 

MRS. KATHARINE MACCARTY, 

AGED ABOUT 42 YEARS, 
DIED JUNE YE 7th, 172 3. 

[All even caps, except the superior letters, and the word about, which is small.] 

HERE LYES YE BODY OF 

THADEUS MACCARTY, 

AGED 65 YEARS AND 6 MONTHS, 
DESESED JUNE YE 18, 1705. 
[Footstone, at back of headstone, ) 

MR. THADEUS MACCARTY. 

HERE LYETH INTERRED YE BODY OF 

CHARLES MACCARTY, 

SON TO THADEUS AND ELIZABETH MACCARTY, 

AGED 18 Y£ARS, WANTING 7 DAYS, DECEASED YE 25 OF 

OCTOBER, 1683. 

[Over top of this inscription, above the D. H., are the words,] 

VIVE MEMOR LETHI. 



50 THE GEANAEY BUKIAL GROUND. 

[Against back of preceding, stands the footstone (broken) of J 
RUTH CUTLER . 



HERE LYETH BURIED YE BODY OF 
ASAPH ELLIOTT, 
AGED 35 YEARS, DEPARTED TfflS LIFB 
YE 3d, 1685. 



HERE LYES YE BODY OF 

MRS. JANE ELY, 

WIFE OF MR. JOHN ELY, AGED 62 YEARS, 
DEC'D APRIL YE 30TH, 1727. 



ELISABETH ARCHER, 

WIFE TO JOHN ARCHER, AGED ABOUT 25 YEARS, 
DEC'D NOV'R YE 8TH, 1721. 

A CHILD 

OF JOHN AND ELIS'TH ARCHER, 

BORN AND DIED NOV'R YE 3D, 1721. 



HERE LIES BURIED THE BODY OFJ 

MR. JOHN TURTELL, 

AGED 29 YEARS, DEC'D DEC'R YE 8TH, 17?6. 



INSCRIPTIONS. 



51 



IIERE LYES YE BODY OF 

SARAH, 

YE WIFE OF JOSEPH URANN, 

AGED 32 YEARS, 7 MO. 

dec'd SEPT. YE 6th, 1721. 



HERE LYES BURIED THE BODY Cf 

MRS. SARAH URANN, 

WIFE TO MR. JOSEPH URANN, 

AGED 61 YEARS, 
DIED YE 25 OF MARCH, 1745. 



HERE LYES BURIED THE BODY OF 

MRS. MARY CARTER, 

AGED 65 YEARS, DIED NOV'R YE 18TH, 1747. 



JOSEPH, 

SON TO MR. JOSEPH AND MRS. SARAH 

PUTNAM, 

AGED 3 MONTHS, 

DIED feb'y ye 19th, 1741. 



SARAH, 

DAUGHTER TO 

MR. JOSEPH AND MRS. SARAH PUTNAM, 

AGED 8 YEARS, 



HERE LYES YE BODY OF 

ABIGAIL CAIiIiOM, 

WIFE TO DANIEL CALLOM, 

AGED 26 YEARS, 

DIED JULY YE 31ST, 1721. 



52 



THE GRANARY BURIAL GROUND. 



MARY FITCH, 

DAUGHTER TO 

JOSEPH AND MARGARET FITOH, 

AGED 3 MO. 

DEC'd FEB. 16, 1739. 



JONATHAN FITCH, 

SON TO 

JOSEPH AND MARGARET FITCH 

AGED 3 MO. 

DEC'd JUNE YE 21, 1738. 



TOMB No. 61. 

EBENEZEIR NICHERSON, 1810. 



THOMAS AND JOHN BBADLEE. 



TOMB No. 62. 
BENAJAH BRIGHAM AND SEWALL KENDALL'S TOMB. 



TOMB No. 64. 
WILLIAM PALFREY. 



TOMB No. 65. 

THE PROPERTY OF THE HEIRS OF 

WILLIAM WHEELER AND JAMES SUMNER, ESQ. 
WHO DIED MARCH 30TH, 1814, AGED 74. 



INSCRIPTIONS. 53 

HERE LYES YE BODY OF 

MR. SAMUEL DIX, 

AGED 30 YEARS, DEC'D JULY 29TH, 1736. 



TOMB No. 66. 

WILLIAM FARRIS AND JOHN ROULSTON. 



IN MEMORY OF THREE CHILDREN OF 
MR. JONATHAN AND MRS. ELIZABETH MERRY, VIZ. : 

JONATHAN, JUN'R 
DIED OCT. 6, 1786, AGED 2 MONTHS. 

LUCY, 
DIED MARCH 2, 1795, AGED 6 YEARS. 

MARY, 
DIED MARCH 3, 1795, AGED 2 YEARS. 

HAPPY THE BABES, WHO PRIVILEg'd BY FATE, 
TO SHORTER LABOUR & A LIGHTER WEIGHT ; 
RECEIVED BUT YESTERDAY THE GIFT OF BREATH, 
ORDERED TO-MORROW TO RETIRE TO DEATH. 



OLD SOUTH. 

The first objects in our city that meet the rising sun, are the spires 
of our churches, pointing to heaven, and thus silently preaching to the 
beholder. Of the some one hundred church edifices in the metropolis, 
many are fine structures, presenting to the eye great varieties of archi- 
tecture, from the common and unpretending up to the Gothic, the 
Norman, and the various orders of the Grecian. There is nothing in 
our goodly city that more arrests the attention of the passing traveller, 
than these same churches, their number, their variety, their beauty and 
solidity. During the first of the Seven Years' War, a church — of this 
then town of Boston of ten thousand inhabitants — that externally ap- 
peared much as it now does, internally presented a strange scene. The 
sanctuary was profanely converted into a riding-school for Burgoyne's 
cavalry. The pulpit and the pews, all hallowed by devotion, had been 
taken out to light the fires of our enemies, the library of the good pastor 
being used for kindlings. Hundreds of loads of dirt and gravel were 
carted into the church, that it might better answer the strange use to 
which it was put. A box was suspended four feet from the floor, over 
which fierce horses, driven by furious riders, leaped. The galleries were 
occupied, not, as now, by those who freely heard the word of God, but 
by spectators of the games below, and by those who sold liquors and re- 
freshments, not having a reverence for the sanctuary, nor the fear of the 
Maine Law before their eyes. The Old South Church, as every body 
knows, was the centre of this dissipation — a church that has been inti- 
mately connected with the history of Boston from an early period. At 
the time alluded to, Mr. Blackstone's farm was converted into the town 
of Boston, containing " about two thousand dwelling houses, mostly of 



OLD SOUTH. 55 

wood, with scarce any public buildin^-.s, but eight or nine cliurches, the 
Old State House, and Faneuil Hall.'' The Old South Church, like the 
First Church, and the First Baptist, was organized in Charlestown, by 
seceders from the First Church, who were disaffected with a call ex- 
tended to Rev. John Davenport. The 6rst meeting-house was erected 
on the spot where the present one stands, corner of Washington and 
Milk streets. The site was the gift of Mrs. Norton, widow of Rev. 
John Norton, who was pastor of the First Church. The first house was 
erected soon after the church was gathered in 16G0. It was built of 
wood, with a spire, and square pews. The first pastor was Rev. Thomas 
Thatcher, an eminent divine, a native of Salisbury, England. Besides 
being an eminent theologian, he was a physician, and published the first 
medical tract that ever was issued in Massachusetts. His successors 
were Willard, the eminent divine ; Pemberton, the eloquent pulpit ora- 
tor; Sewall, who was known as "Good Dr. Sewall," who was pastor of 
the church for fifty years, and when his health failed, near the close of 
his life, was carried into the pulpit, and instructed the people from Sab- 
bath to Sabbath ; Prince, the able divine and learned scholar ; Cumming, 
Blair, Bacon, Hunt, Ecklcy, Huntington, the first sole pastor ; the de- 
voted Wisner ; the gifted and short-lived Stearns ; and Blagden, who 
now ministers to this ancient church — fourteen in all, and a succession 
of uncommonly worthy ministers, whose fame is in the churches, and 
whose record is on high. The present Old South Church is a substan- 
tial structure of brick, of a style of architecture that is chaste and be- 
coming, though not uncommon. It stands, as it has stood for more than 
a century — it having been erected in the year 1730. The last sermon 
was preached in the old house, March '2, 17"_".». The next day it was 
taken down, when it was found to be so much decayed, that it was 
thought that the congregation, the day before, had " a very gracioas 
preservation." A curious plan of the lower floor of the present house is 
before us, under the head " Pues on ye lower flore in ye Metting-House," 
evidently drawn soon after the building was finished, and the pews sold. 
From this plan, it appears that the house is eighty-eight feet by sixty-one, 
and that it is substantially now as it was at the beginning. Formerly, there 



56 THE GRANARY BURIAL GROUND, 

was a high elder's seat directly in front of the pulpit, and a deacon's seat 
nearly as high. Several of the best pews in the house, according to the 
custom of the time, were devoted to the accommodation of the aged — a 
custom that has become obsolete. In this plan, the names of the pew- 
holders are given, embracing some of the noblest names of the time, such 
as Governor Belcher, Franklin, Bromfield, Brattle, Winslow, Cotton, 
Elliot, etc. It will be remembered that the world-renowned Franklin 
was born under the shadow of this church, on the south side of Milk 
street, on the spot where now stands a noble block of stores, with this 
inscription : " The Birth-place of Franklin." The following church re- 
cord will assist the reader in understanding the disposition of the con- 
gregation in the new edifice. " At a meeting of the South Church, in 
their brick meeting-house, August 5, 1730 : Voted, That the deacons be 
desired to procure some suitable person to take the oversight of the 
children and servants in the galleries, and take care that good order be 
maintained in time of divine worship ; and that a sufl&cient reward be 
allowed for the encouragement of such a person." The Old South 
Church is a noble structure, situated now in the very heart of the city, 
though, as its name indicates, at the beginning, at its southern extremity. 
It is surmounted by one of the loftiest spires in the city. Its bell is 
large and fine-toned. More eyes are upturned to its clock daily, we ven- 
ture to say, than to any other timekeeper in New England. Indeed, it 
is to New England as to the hours, what Boston is as to business. As 
we enter the house of God, we find the same substantial appearance there 
as externally. The house is found to be very capacious, and, with its 
two galleries, will seat, perhaps, more than any other church in the city. 
The pulpit is very high for these times, and is overshadowed by a sound- 
ing-board that makes little children fear for the head of the minister. 
This pulpit is the second in the present house, the first one being what 
was styled a " tub " pulpit. The organ is a superior instrument, that 
was procured in London, and it is presided over by one of the leading 
organ-players in the city. The choir sing with much spirit, and express, 
to a remarkable degree, the sentiments of the hymns of praise. The 
whole house has been thoroughly repaired recently at a heavy expense. 



OLD SOUTH, r)l 

The pews, though not built after the modern style, are all the more 
comfortable ; and it would seem that the owners never thought of the 
fact that the land beneath them was worth thirty dollars the square foot. 
Indeed, fill the house with people, and then jam it to occupy every inch 
of space, as many of our churches are jammed when they are called filled, 
and it would contain half as many more. Of the present sole pastor of 
this ancient church, Rev. Dr. Blagden, it is not too much to say, that he 
eminently fills the place he occupies. He seems to have been formed to 
preach in the Old South pulpit, and to minister to the Old South con- 
i^regation, as is indicated by the kind Providence that has continued him 
in his present position for seventeen years, and that promises to continue 
him until he enters the sanctuary above. Mr. Blagden is a Southerner 
by birth, was educated at the schools of the North, and was first settled 
over a Congregational church in the neighboring town of Brighton, when 
he was transferred to the church in Salem street, in this city, and next 
to the present scene of his labors. His attainm-jnts are of a solid rather 
than of a showy character, and he has built up for himself a permanent 
and not an ephemeral reputation. As a preacher, as a pastor, as a ripe 
scholar, as a Christian gentleman, as a genial companion and friend, he 
is rarely excelled. Eminently catholic in spirit, while strongly attached 
to the faith and practice of his own communion — the Orthodox Congre- 
gational — he is respected and beloved by t'le whole family of Christ. 
Mr. Blagden has done something in the way of authorship. He has 
been called to lecture before the Lowell Institute, and to deliver a num- 
ber of occasional discourses at home and abroad, on which labors we 
cannot dwell. In closing this brief notice, it is obvious to remark, that 
much interest clusters around the Old South Church, or " The Sanctuary 
of Freedom," as it has been termed, from the patriotic assemblages that 
were gathered within its walls just previous to the outbreak of the Rev- 
olution. In this church, Franklin worshipped and was baptized. Here, 
that prince of preachers, Whitetield, lifted up his voice like a trumpet. 
In this temple, " our enemies in war and our friends in peace " did that 
which for a moment saddens our interest. Within these walls the I]lec- 
tion sermons have been delivered annually before "the powers that be,'' 



58 THE GRANARY BURIAL GROUND. 

and multitudes have been educated for the church triumphant in heaven. 
To the Bostonian, the very name of the " Old South " brings back child- 
ish recollections, and happy early associations. Before the city had so 
grown as to extend almost out of town, this was a sort of landmark in 
the designating of distances ; any given locality was about so far from 
the " Old South," this side or that side of the " Old South," etc., and so 
on. Indeed, the church is not only a sort of landmark as regards the 
bearings in our harbor, as considered by the pilots, but is also a point 
of departure, so to speak, on the land itself There are few notable lo- 
calities in the City of Notions, better known than is ilhis venerable and 
revered pile, and the site it occupies — a silent remembrancer of scenes 
and events associated with all that is dear to Americans. 

Kev. L. F. 



DR. JOSEPH ECKLEY, D. D. 

Joseph Eckley, D. D., Minister, of Boston, was born in London, 
Oct. 22, 1750. His father removing to New Jersey about 1767, he 
was graduated at Princeton College in 1772. He was ordained at Bos- 
ton, as the successor of Mr. Hunt, over the Old South congregation, 
Oct. 27, 1729. The Society at this time made use of the King's Chapel, 
as the Old South Meeting House, after being occupied by the British 
troops, was not repaired and re-occupied till March 2, 1783. Eev. 
Joshua Huntington was ordained as colleague pastor, May 18, 1808. 
Dr. Eckley died, after a short illness, April 30, 1811, aged 60. His 
wife, a dau.ghter of John Jeffries, survived him, and died in 1825. 

During 24 years, he admitted on an average only about five persons 
a year into the church, but in 1803 and 1804 he made new efforts to 
promote a revival of religion among his people ; the Tuesday evening 
meeting, amidst much opposition, was established, exerting a most im- 
portant beneficial influence. 

In his religious sentiments, while Dr. Eckley held fast to all the 



OLD SOUTH. 59 

other doctrines of the Evangelical system, he became a Semi-Arian, or 
Worcesterian, in his views of the person of Christ. He wrote as follows : 
" My plan respecting the Son of God was very similar to what your 
brother (Dr. N. Worcester) has now adopted. The common plan of 
three self-existent persons forming one essence, or Infinite Being, and 
one of these persons being united to a man, but not in the least humbling 
himself or suffering, leads to and ends in Socinianism ; and though it 
claims the form of orthodoxy, it is the shadow without the substance ; it 
eludes inspection ; and I sometimes say to those who are strenuous for 
this doctrine, that they take away my Lord, and I know not where they 
place him." 

" The orthodoxy (so called) of Waterland, is as repugnant to my 
reason and views of religion as the heterodoxy of Lardner; and I am at 
a loss to see that any solid satisfaction, for a person who wishes to find 
salvation through the death of the Son of God, can be found in either." 
" I seek for a plan which exalts the personal character of the Son of God 
in the highest possible degree." He supposed the Son to be derived 
from the Father, God of God, Light of Light, having a real Divine na- 
ture, yet being derived, not self-existent and independent. 

He published an Essay on the Divine Glory, in the Condemnation of 
the Ungodly, 1782; at the Artillery Election, 1792; at the Installation 
of Mr. Evans ; at the Thanksgiving, 1797 ; before the Asylum, 1802 ; 
before the Society for Propagating the Gospel, 1805; at the Installation 
of Mr. Holley, in 1809; Dudleian Lecture of 1806, ISlO.— Wismr's 
History of the 0. S. Church, 45. 



60 THE GRANARY BURIAL GROUND. 



REV. JOHN BACON. 

Rev. John Bacon was born in Canterbury, Conn., and was graduated 
at the College, in New Jersey, in 1765. After preaching for a time in 
Somersett County, Maryland, he and Mr. John Hunt were settled as 
colleague pastors over the Old South Church in Boston, as successors of 
Mr. Blair, Sept. 25, 1771. His style of preaching was argumentative; 
his manner approaching the severe. Difficulties soon sprung up in re- 
gard to the doctrines of Atonement and of Imputation, and the adminis- 
tration of Baptism on the Halfway Covenant, which led to the dismis- 
sion of Mr. Bacon, Feb. 8, 1775. His views seem to be such as now 
prevail in New England, while his church advocated limited atonement, 
and the notion of the actual transference of the sins of believers to 
Christ, and of his obedience to them. Probably the more popular 
talents of Mr. Hunt had some influence in creating the difficulty. 

Mr. Bacon removed to Stockbridge, Berkshire County, where he 
died October 25, 1820. He was a Magistrate, a Representative, Asso- 
ciate and Presiding Judge of the Common Pleas, a Member and Presi- 
dent of the State Senate, and Member of Congress. In his political 
views, he accorded with the party of Mr. Jefferson. He married the 
widow of his predecessor, Mr. Cummin. She was the daughter of 
Ezekiel Goldthwait, Register of Deeds for Suffolk. His son, Ezekiel 
Bacon, was a distinguished Member of Congress just before the war of 
1812. He published a Sermon after his installation, 1772 ; an answer 
to Huntington on a Case of Discipline, 1781 ; Speech on the Courts of 
United States, 1802 ; Conjectures on the Prophecies, 1805. 



INSCUlPTiONS. 61 

"l LAY ME DOWN IN MY MOTHEr's LAP." 

Afiiion. 

"the just shall be had in everlasting remembrance." 

chear'd with this pleasing thought, 
Jehovah's power to raise me from the dust, 
ON his unfailing promises rely, 

AND ALL THE HORRORS OF THE GRAVE DEFY. 
HERE LYES THE BODY OF 

MRS. MARY BROWN, 

WIFE OF MR. GAWEN BROWN, 
DIED MAY 28TH, 1760, AGED 31 YEARS. 

[Note.] This stone is 42 feet south of the Franklin Monument, and 6 feet west of 
GERSHOM FLAGG'S" beautiful Masonic Monument. 



HERE LYES BURIED THE BODY OF 

MR. SAMUEL PHILLIPS, 

AND HIS CHILDREN, 
HEIRS OF MOSES BASS. TOMB. 



No. 78. 

MARTEN SMITH. 



62 



THE GRANAKY BURIAL GROUND. 



MARY WINSLOW, 

DIED AUGUST YE 8TH, 1753, /ETAT 

SAMUEL BEMMES, 
OB'T JUNE 9TH, 1804, /E. 67. 



No. 77. 
COAT OF ARMS. 



No. 76. 
EDMUND QUINCY, ESQ. FAMILY TOMB. 



HERE LYES THE BODY OF 

MR. DAVID DEMMING, 

dec'd may ye 4th, 

1725, 

AGED 73 YEARS. 



HERE LYES THE BODY OF 

MRS. MARY DEMMING, 

WIFE TO MR, DAVID DEMMING, 

dec'd OCT. YE 14th, 1724, 

AGED 72 YEARS. 



No. 74. 

GRAY AND BLAKE. 



INSCRIPTIONS. 
No. 73. 

JOSHUA BLANCHARD TOMB. 



63 



MRS. MARY PHILLIPS, 

WIFE OF DEACON JOHN PHILLIPS, 
DYED AUGUST YE 15TH, 1742, AGED 39 YEARS. 



No. 35. 

ABRAHAM STRONG AND MARY FISK, 1811. 



HERE LYES YE BODY OF 

MRS. HONORA DEMMING, 

dec'd may ye 13, 1713, 

aged 28 years. 



HERE LYES YE BODY OF 

MR. SAMUEL DEMMING, 

dec'd APRIL YE 22d, 1722, 

AGED 35 YEARS. 



JANE DEMMING, 

DEC'D FEB'Y 7, 1715, AGED 3 YEARS 4 MO. 



JOHN HOWELL, 

DEC'D AUG'T YE 4TH, ITYI, AGED 9 WEEKS. 



No. 33. 

BELKNAP, 1725. 



64 THE GRANAKY BURIAL GROUND. 

No. 32. 
WILLIAM GIBBON AND JOHN GIBBON, 1726. 
LETITIA BAKER AND ANNE DURVAGE'S. 



No. 31. 
OLIVER C. WYMAN. 



HERE LYES 

THE BODY OF 

MR. JOSEPH DEMMING, 

WHO DIED THE 22d JANUARY, 1738-9, 

iETATIS 20. 



HERE LYES 

YE BODY OF 

MRS. HANNAH DEMMING, 

WHO DIED THE 13tH SEPTEMBER, 

1742, ^TATIS 66. 



HERE LYES THE BODY OF 

MRS. ABIGAIL FOSTER, 

WHO DIED28TH SEPTEMBER, 1739, IN YE 25TH YEAR OF HER AGE. 



SILENCE ALLEN, 1726. 



No. 28. 
REBECCA AND ABIGAIL LAMB. 



INSCRIPTIONS. 

SAMUEL RAND 



65 



HERE LYES THE BODY OF 

MR. ELf:AZER DOOLY, 

AGED 73 YEARS, DEC'D JUNE YE 1, 1735. 



No. 26. 

THE TOMB OF THE HEIRS OF THOMAS WALLIS. 



JEREMIAH BELKNAP, 1830. 
MARY BELKNAP, 1832. 

THIS STONE WAS PLACED BY THE TRUSTEES OF THE 

MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL, 

IN GRATITUDE FOR LONG AND FAITHFUL BENEFACTIONS. 



Time with a scj'the. 



BENJAMIN HALE 

AND 

ASA HATCH'S TOMB. 



Time with an hour- 
glass. 



No. 24. 

SAMUEL DILLAWAY'S TOMB, 1790. 
5 



66 



THE GEANARY BURIAL GROUND. 
No. 9. 

ABIGAIL GRAY'S TOMB. 



HERE LYES BURIED 

THE BODY OF 

MR. ROBERT GUTTERIDGE, 

DEc'd NOV. YE 4th, 

1717, 

IN THE 74th YEAR OP HIS AGE. 



HERE LYES BURIED 

THE BODY OF 

MRS. MARY GUTTERIDGE, 

WIFE TO MR. ROBERT GUTTERIDGE, 
AGED 71 YEARS, 

dec'd dec. 11, 1735. 



MR. JOHN GUTTERIDGE, 

DEC'D APRIL YE 26TH, 1747, AGED 41 YEARS. 
HERE LYES BURIED THE BODY OF 

MRS. MARY ANN CLARKE, 

THE WIFE OF MR. JONATHAN CLARKE, MERCH'T, 

WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE, 

SEPT. 3D, 1747, AGED 36 YEARS. 



No. 8. 
THE TOMB OF BETHUNE, 1744. 



TOMB No. 7. — [No Inscription.] 



No. 38. 
THE TOMB OF REBECCA AMORY. 



AMORY. 

The first of this family who settled in America was Jonathan Amory, 
who came to South Carolina about the year 168G. He was born be- 
tween 1640 and 1650, in England, in the county of Somerset, where 
his family had long possessed the estate of St. Ann's and of the pro- 
perty near Brislington. His elder brother, Thomas, marrying Elizabeth 
Fitzmaurice, the daughter of Patrick, nineteenth Lord Kerry, and 
removing into Ireland, his youngest brother, Jonathan, accompanied 
him, and resided some years in the county of Kerry. He married Re- 
becca Houston, and went to the West Indies. His wife dying, he 
removed to Charleston, was chosen Speaker of the Colonial Legislature, 
and appointed Treasurer of the proprietors. He married again and died 
in 1090, his second wife, Martha, dying soon after him. His children 
were: Thomas, born 1682, in Limerick; Ann, who married James 
Ramsay ; Sarah, who married Governor Arthur Middleton ; a daughter 
mentioned in her father's will, who married Joseph Croskeys : and, it is 
believed, another son, the ancestor of the late Judge Johnson, of South 
Carolina, and his brother, Dr. Joseph Johnson, author of the Traditions 
of the Revolution. 

His son, Thomas, was sent about 1695 to England, to the care of 
his cousin, Thomas Amory, of the Inner Temple, London, and went to 
Westminster school. When his father died he was placed in the count- 
ing-house of Mr. Oursel, a French merchant, in London, who sent him, in 



68 THE GRANARY BURIAL GROUND. 

the year 1707, as supercargo to the Azores. He established himself in 
commerce, and in connexion with William White, the wealthiest merchant 
of the Island, became largely engaged in trade with England, Portugal, 
and America ; was appointed English and Dutch Consul, and accumulated 
property. His sister, Mrs. Middleton, and his guardian, Mrs. Rhett, wife 
of Governor William Rhett, wrote him to come over to Carolina, but 
several years elapsed before he could sufficiently free himself from his 
affairs to leave the Islands. The 4th of June, 1719, he set sail from Ter- 
ceira and on the 13th of July reached Boston. His letters and memo- 
randum books, of which we have a large number, give the particulars of 
his movements. He passed the following winter in South Carolina, trav- 
elled in the spring over tlie Middle Colonies, and, returning to Boston, 
met Miss Rebecca Holmes, of a family settled partly here, and partly in 
South Carolina, and married her in May, 1721. He bought lands at the 
south end of Boston, hired a counting-house on the Long Wharf, en- 
gaged in commerce with England, the Azores, and the Carolinas, and 
died here in June, 1728. His children were : Thomas, born 1722, died 
1784; Mary, bom 1723, died 1804; Rebecca, born 1725, died 1798; 
Jonathan, born 1726, died 1797; and John, born 1728, died 1804. 
Mrs. Amory died 1770, at the age of 70. 

1. Thomas Fisher, his eldest son, bom in Boston, 1722, graduated at 
Cambridge 1741. Studied divinity, but never took orders. In 1765, he 
married Elizabeth, daughter of William Coffin ; purchased the house 
built by Governor Belcher, at the corner of Harvard and Washington 
streets, the gardens of which extended to the water,^ and here resided 
till his death in 1784. In 1776, at the request of the Selectmen of 
Boston, one of whom was his brother-in-law, Timothy Newell, and with 
the sanction of General Howe, he went with his brother, Jonathan 
Amory, to Dorchester Heights, to request General Washington to per- 
mit the British troops to retire unmolested, on condition that the place 
should be left uninjured. The proposal coming from the Selectmen, and 
not from General Howe, no agreement could be entered into, but the 
understanding was respected on Ijoth sides. His wife's family, the 



AMORY. G9 

Cofi&us, were chiefly loyalists, aud Mr. Aiuory was regarJeJ with .sus- 
picion, and passed some time at "Watertown. He died the year after the 
peace. In 1790, Belcher house was burnt in the great fire, and his 
widow, Mrs. Amory, soon after purchased the house on Frankliu Place, 
now occupied by the family of the late Col. Winchester, and resided 
there till her death in 1823. Their children were five sons and three 
daughters, and their portraits by Copley, and hers by Stuart, are still in 
the family of their descendants. 

2. Mary Amory, born 1723, married Timothy Newell, long one of the 
Selectmen of Boston. They resided on Bowdoin Square. Mrs. Newell 
died in 1804, leaving no descendants. 

3. Rebecca Amory, born 1725, married Edward Payne. They resided 
on State Place, King-street, and, on the day of the massacre, his arm was 
broken, while standing at his door, by a musket ball, as the troops tired on 
the people. Mrs. Payne died in 1796. Their children were one son and 
three daughters. William Payne, the son, married Mrs. Doble, born 
Gray, and had two sons, twins, Edward and William, who died unmar- 
ried. His sister Rebecca, married Governor Christopher Gore, at one 
time Minister to England, aud who left a large estate to Harvard Col- 
lege, and his two sisters, Mary Payne and Sarah Payne, long lived on 
Beacon-street, in the house next to the Athenaeum. 

4. Jonathan Amory, born 1726, engaged early in business, and with his 
brother John as a partner, imported merchandise into this country from 
Enghmd. Their counting-house was on Dock Sc^uare, and afterwards 
on Washington, near Franklin-street, where still stands the large 
warehouse, with double-pitched roof, owned by the family of his 
nephew. Mr. Daniel D. Rogers and Mr. Joseph Taylor were at one 
time partners. Their letter books from 1760 to 1700 give some very 
interesting accounts of the events and agitations of that stormy period. 
They early predicted what actually ensued, a sanguinary conflict and 
eventual separation from the mother-country, if the government per- 
sisted in its measures of coercion. Many of Mr. Amory's own letters 
were published in the English newspapers, and to one, a correspondent. 



70 THE GRANARY BURIAL GROUND. 

a member of Parliament, ascribed the merit of influencing in some 
measure the repeal of the Stamp Act, At the commencement of the 
war, the house owed their English creditors thirty thousand pounds 
sterling, and while their own debtors, from inability, or taking advantage 
of the times, neglected to pay them, or if at all, in the depreciated cur 
reney, their whole debt was remitted within the year. 

Jonathan Amory married Abigail Taylor, and resided in Washing- 
ton-street, then Newbury, in a house still standing, masked with shops, 
and still owned by his family. He had no children, and dying in 1797, 
left a large estate, chiefly to his brother John, and John's children, who, 
during their father's long absence in Europe during the Revolution, had 
been left to his care. 

5. John Amory, born 1728, was engaged in business with his brother, 
under the firm of J. & J. Amory, and married Catherine, daughter of 
Rufus Greene. He built and occupied the house at the corner of Bea- 
con-street and Tremont Row, where now stands the Albion. In 1774 
it becoming important that a partner of the house should go to Europe, 
Mr. John Amory was selected, and his wife went with him. The war 
soon after broke out, and Mrs. Amory falling ill, and lingering till 1778, 
when she died, he was regarded as a loyalist, and not permitted to 
return. His sympathies, however, were all with his countrymen and 
the struggle in which they were engaged for their liberties, and he left 
England and resided on the continent. He shortly before the peace 
returned to America, but landing in New York, then in the occupation 
of the British, was not permitted to return to his family. His name 
had been placed on the list of refugees, and preliminary measures taken 
to confiscate his property. His brother wrote him that should these 
measures be consummated, he should always be ready to share what he 
had with him. He resided for a time in Providence, and after the 
peace, through the influence of his friends, and on making petition to 
the Legislature declaring his allegiance to the Goverrment and attach- 
ment to the new Institutions, he was allowed to return to Boston. He 
died in 1802, leaving six sons and four daughters. His portrait, and 
that of Mrs. Amory, by Copley, are still in his family. 



AMORY. 71 

Of the children of Thomas Amory, the first of this family in 
Boston, and Rebecca Holmes, there are only from Thomas the eldest, 
and from John the youngest, descendants, still living. 

The children of Thomas Amory and Elizabeth Cofiin, were: 

1. Rebecca, born 1776, who married Dr. Aaron Dexter, a physician 
and Professor of Chemistry at Harvard College. He long resided on 
Milk-street, opposite the head of Pearl-street. Their children were : 
Thomas A. Dexter, Charles P. Dexter, George M. Dexter, John C 
Dexter, Mrs. William D. Sohier, and Miss Catherine Dexter, and Miss 
Marianne, now deceased. 

2. Thomas C. Amory, born 1707, married in 1795 Hannah Rowi' 
Linzee, daughter of Captain John Linzee, who commanded a vessel of 
war in our harbor at the time of the battle of Bunker Hill. Mr. 
Amory was engaged extensively in commerce with his cousin, William 
Payne, and after 1800 with his brother, Jonathan Amory, and was very 
successful. The object of this sketch being merely to preserve facts 
and dates, any attempt to portray character would be out of place ; but 
it may be permitted to say, that he was among those of his day in Bos- 
ton most beloved and respected, and his early death subject of general 
regret and mourning. He resided in Boston, at No. 21 Franklin-street, 
and during the summers at Brookline. Mr. Amory died in 1812, and 
his widow in 1846. Their children were Col. Thomas C. Amory, 
Samuel Hood Linzee Amory, William Amory, Charles Amory, Jlrs. 
Thomas A. Dexter, Mrs. William H. Prescott, Mrs. George M. Dexter, 
and Mrs. Edward D. Soliier. 

3. Elizabeth, born 1768, married Stephen Deblois. Their children 
were: Stephen, who died young, Thomas A. Deblois, of Portland, late 
U. S. District Attorney for Maine, John A. Deblois, late of Columbus, 
Georgia, Mr. N. James Deblois, of Florida, Edward, who died young, 
and two daughters. Mrs. Deblois died in 1852. 

4. Jonathan Amory, born 1770, graduated at Harvard College 1787, 
entered the counting-house of his uncle, J. & J. Amory, and engaged 
in business with James Cutler. He married Ruth Wier, whose family 
then resided on the spot where the Belcher house, in which he was born. 



72 THE GRANARY BURIAL GROUND. 

had stood previously to tlie great fire. She died in 1795, and is buried 
in the southeast corner of the Boylston-street Burying Grround, where 
stands the square marble monument of her family. After her death 
Mr. Amory married Mrs. Cutler, the widow of his partner, and the 
daughter of Governor James Sullivan. His brother, Thomas C. Amory, 
took him into partnership, and he accumulated property. He resided 
from 1811 to 1828, when he died, at No. 7 Park-street, where now 
stands the house of the late Abbott Lawrence. Mrs. Amory died in 
1847. Their children were : Jonathan Amory, James S. Amory, and 
Thomas C. Amory, Jr., Mrs. Samuel Meredith, and three other 
daughters. 

5. John Amory, born 1771, married Sarah Grardner, and resided in 
Dorchester. Their children were : John Gr., of Dorchester, Nathaniel, 
of Texas, Mrs. William Perkins, and Mrs. Amory Davis, and two other 
daughters. Mr. Amory died 1834. 

6. Mary, born 1773, married Jonathan Davis. Their children were : 
Francis Davis, and J. Amory Davis, now living, and Edward A. Davis, 
and two daughters, who died young. Mrs. Davis died in 1835. 

7. William Amory, born 1774, was in early life a midshipman in 
the English navy, and afterwards in our own. He joined the marine 
corps, and was appointed lieutenant. He displayed great gallantry on 
many occasions, and was much beloved by his brother officers. He died 
about 1812. 

8. Nathaniel Amory, born 1777, married Mary, daughter of Eben 
Preble, and niece of Commodore Preble, and resided many years at the 
beautiful place in Watertown, now the property of Mr. Cushing. He 
was appointed Navy Agent at Pensacola by President John Q. Adams, 
and passed the last part of his life at Newport, Ehode Island. Mr. 
Amory died in Boston in 1845. Mrs. Amory still resides in Newport. 

9. Nancy, born , died 

The children of John Amory and Catherine Greene, were : 
1. John Amory, born 1759, married Catherine Willard, of Lan- 
caster. His only child was Mrs. Henry Codman. He died 1832. 



AMORY. 73 

2. Rufua G. Amory, born 17G0, graduated at Harvard College 1773, 
studied law, was admitted to the bar, and acquired a lucrative practice. 
He married Miss Nancy Geyer, and resided in Beacon-street on 
Boston, and at Elm Hill in Roxbury. His children were Mrs. Joseph 
L. Cunningham, Mrs. Col. Freeman, Mrs. Dr. Jeffries, and Mrs. Edward 
Linzee Cunningham. Mr. Amory died 1833. 

3. Thomas Amory, born 1762, was a merchant, in partnership with 
his brother John. He erected the large building at the head of Park- 
street for his dwelling, but commercial reverses prevented his occupying 
it. He resided long at Roxbury, and died there in 1823. He married 
Miss Elizabeth Bowen, of Providence. Their children are : Mrs. Robert 
Ives, of Providence, Mr. W. Raymond Lee, and two other sisters, of 
Roxbury, living, and John H. Amory, Thomas Amory, and Rev. Mrs. 
Howe, deceased. 

4. Jonathan Amory, born 1763, married Miss Lydia Fellowes, of 
Cuba. Their children were Mrs. David Eckley, Mrs. John Lowell, 
wife of the founder of the Lowell Institute, and Mrs. Poussin, of 
France. He died 1820. 

5. William Amory, born 1765, graduated at Cambridge 1784, and 
married Lucy Fletcher. His children were Caroline and Lucy, who 
married Mr. Bennet, and afterwards Mr. Haskell. He died 1792. 

6. Francis Amory, born 1766, married Miss Sarah Kirkland, sister 
of President Kirkland, and resided at Milton. His children were : 
Francis, George, and Mrs. Charles G. Loring. He died 1845. 

7. Catherine, born 1769, married John Codman. Her children 
were : Francis Codman, Mrs. Hurd, of New York, and Mrs. Wm. Ropes, 
living, and George Codman, Miss Elizabeth Codman, and William Cod- 
man, deceased. She died 1832. 

>*. Rebecca,born 1771, married John Lowell. Their children were: 
John Amory Lowell, and two daughters. She died 1842. 

9. Mary, born 1773, married .Mr. George Bethune. Their children 
were : George A. Bethune, and John M. Bethune. She died 1844. 

10. Ann, born 1774, married first John McLean, who left a large 



74 THE GRANAKY BURIAL GROUND. 

estate to Harvard College and the Massachusetts Hospital, the branch 
of which at Sonierville bears his name, and who died in 1824. Mrs. 
Lee died in 1834, leaving no children. 

On a Tankard now in the possession of the family, and which is 
mentioned in the will of Mrs. Martha Amory, of South Carolina, dated 
1699, is engraved the shield annexed, which is that stated in Burke, to 
belong to the branch of the family settled in Oxfordshire, in England. 

[Shield of the Amory Family.] 




INSCRIPTIONS. 75 

No. 2. 

AARON ARCHIBALD'S. 

TOMB No. 1. 

MARTIN SMITH. 

[Emblems — Urn and Weeping Willow.] 

IN MEMORY OF 

MRS. ELIZA SARGENT, 

WIDOW OF THE LATE MR. JOHN SARGENT, 

WHO DIED FEB'Y 21ST, 1793, 

AGED 53 YEARS. 

" BLESSED ARE THE DEAD WHO DIE IN THE LORD, 

FOR THEY REST FROM THEIR LABOUR, 

AND THEIR WORKS DO FOLLOW THEM." 



No. 6. 

COAT OF ARMS. 

[ Note.] Inscription covered with eartb. 



No. 5. 

HENRY AND OLIVER SMITHS. 



76 THE GRANARY BURIAL GROUND. 

SAMUEL 

SON TO THOMAS AND DEBORAH GUSHING, 
AGED 16 MO. AND 25 DAYS, DIED APRIL YE 4, 1766. 



COAT OF ARMS. 
THIS TOMB BELONGS TO THE FAMILY OF GUSHING. 
[ Note.] The Inscription is covered with earth. 



No. 3. 
THE TOMB OF WILLIAM GOOCH. 



HERE LYES YE BODY OF 

OLIVER, 

SON OF OLIVER AND ANNA NOYES, 

AGED 2 YEARS, 10 MONTHS, AND 26 DAYS, 

DEG'D JULY YE 7TH, 1716. 



TOMB No. 23. 

JON'A JACKSON'S. 



No. 22. 
MINOT'S TOMB, 1808. 



INSCRIPTIONS. 77 

TOMB No. 21. 
THOMAS LEACH AND NATHAN WEBB. 



No. 20. 
WILLIAM PRENTICE AND JEDEDIAH TUTTLE'S TOMB, 1827. 



HERE I-YES INTERRED TFIE nODY OF 

CAPT. SAM'L BLACK, MERCITT, 

WHO WAS BORN IN THE NORTH OF IRELAND, 
HE DIED FEB'rY 'J5th, 1749-50, AGED 46 YEARS. 



TOMB No. 12. 
JEREMIAH ALLEN. 



HERE LYES INTERRED YE BODY OF 

MR. ARMAND PICHOT, OF SURRINAM, MARCH'T, 

WHO DEPARTED THIS LITE. 
MARCH YE 24tH, 1727-8, ^TATIS 48. 



TOMB No. 18, 
THOMAS CREES'S. 



78 THE GKANARY BURIAL GROUND. 

HERE LYES INTERRED YE BODY OF 

OAPT. WITHERS BERRY, 

OF KITTERY, 

WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE DECEMBER YE IItH, 1732, 

IN YE 39th year OF HIS AGE. 



HERE LYES YE BODY OF 

OAPT. RICHARD HALES, 

OP STEPNEY PARISH, IN LONDON, 
AGED ABOUT 85 YEARS, DEC'd JUNE YE 6tH, 1720. 



HERE LYES YE BODY OF 

MR. JOHN OARRIOK, 

of ye island of mount serrat, 

aged 34 years, 

dec'd feb'ry ye 27th, 1735-6. 



HERE LYES BURIED THE BODY OF 

MR. PATTERIOK DEVEREX, 

AGED 45 YEARS, DEc'd DECEMBER YE 15tH, 1736. 



V9 



HERE LYES YE BODY OF 

MR. PEREGRIN WHITE, 

dec'd nov'r ye 20th, 1727, in ye 67 year of his age. 
[Note.] This monument stands 76 feet west of the Franklin Monument. 



IN MEMORY OF IN MEMORY OF 

SOPHIA STODDARD, I NOAH STODDARD, 

WHO DIED sept'r 21st, 1787, WHO DIED AUGUST 27th, 1791, 

AGED 15 MONTHS. I AGED 15 MONTHS. 

CHILDREN OF NOAH AND ELIZABETH STODDARD. 
HERE LIES TWO LOVELY BABES, WHOSE EARLY BREATH, 
WAS SNATCH'd by CREWEL, NOT UNTIMELY DEATH ; 
HENCE DID THEY GO, JUST AS THEY DID BEGIN 
SORROW TO KNOW, BEFORE THEY KNEW TO SIN. 



HERE LYES YE BODY OF 

MR. SAMUEL DIX, 

AGED 30 YEARS, DEc'd JULY YE 29tH, 1736. 



HERE LYES YE BODY OF 

MR. THOMAS PHILLIPS, 

dec'd APRIL YE 24tH, 1720, IN YE 59tH year of HIS AGE. 



~f 



80 THE GRANAKY BURIAL GROUND. 

No. 68. 
RICHARD CHECKLEY, 1737. 

HOCCE MEUM CORPUS DE FUNERE VIQ SEPULCHRI- 

SALVATOR JESUS SARCIET ILLE, MEUS 

CHRISTUS ERIT PESTIS MORS FRIGIDA 

TUQ SEPULCHRUM EXITIUM 

CERTUM MOX ERIT ILLE TUUM 

[Arms, by the name of Checbxy.] 



HERE LYES 

YE BODY OF 

MRS. MARY EMMONS, 

DAUGHTER OF CAPT. SIMON AMORY, 

AGED 66 YEARS, 

DYED OCTOBER YE 8tH, 1740. 



YE BODY OF 
MARY EMMONS, 

WIFE OF BENJ'n. EMMONS, JUN. 
AGED * * * 3 MONTHS, 

DYED jan'ry ye 23d, 1743. 



[Note.] The above inscription is on a slab covering the first tomb south of 
Tremont House. 



ISAAC 

SON TO MR. ISAAC AND MRS. ELIS'tH SAVAGE, 
AGED 1 YEAR, DIED SEPT. 7tH, 1743. 








Gov'' of Mass; taken nn Hw costume of a Jxis. S.J. Cm YiiVc 



GOVERNOR INCREASE SIBINER. 

Increase Sumner, Governor of Massachusetts, was born in Roxbury, 
in the county of Suffolk, now Norfolk, on the l27th of November, 1746.* 

The house of his father, iu which his birth took place, stood on the 
site of Hall's new brick block of buihlings iu Washington street, Rox- 
bury, nearly opposite to Sumner street. The house where he passed the 
last twenty years of his life, and in which he died, is situated on Bart- 
lett street. It was formerly the confiscated estate of Judge Robert 
Auchmuty, and is now occupied by Mr. Charles F. Bradford. 

His ancestor, Roger Sumner, was buried in the Church-yard of St. 
Edburg, in the Saxon town of Bicosttir, of remote antiquity, in the 
county of Oxford, England, and thirteen miles from that city. His son 
William was christened in the Churcli St. Edburg, and with his wife, 
Mary, settled in Dorchester, Mass., aliout the year 1635; from which 
time until his death he held various jiublic offices. 

The father of the subject of this sketch, whose name he bore, was a 
yeoman, and there never was a man better calculated for sturdy labor. 
He was of colossal size, and equal strength of muscle, which was kept 
in tone by regularity and good habits. He shrunk from no labor, how- 
ever arduous or fatiguing it might seem to others. Instances of the 
wonderful feats of* strength performed by hitn were related after his 
death, by bis contemporaries, in his native place and the vicinity. He 

* His portrait, the engraving of which precedes this sketch, was taken in the robes 
worn by the Justices of the S. J. Court until about 1792. In the year 17H7, after he 
was cho.sen govenior, it was retouched, and the hair dressed and powdered as he tlien 
wore it 



82 THE GRANARY BURIAL GROUND. 

was a Coroner for the county of Suffolk, and Selectman of Roxbury, 
and was a man highly respected. He died in 1774, having had eight 
children. 

The first rudiments of learning were taught the subject of this 
notice by the late Judge William Gushing, of the S. J. C. of the U. S., 
who was then preceptor of the public grammar-school in Eoxbury. 
Under such a master and his successors in this school (one of which was 
G-en. Joseph Warren, a native of the town), the pupil made such progress 
as induced the friends of the family to solicit the father's permission that 
his son might continue his studies at Harvard University. To gain 
this point was no easy task, for the father considered that happiness and 
success in life were more certainly found in agricultural than in any 
other pursuits ; but he yielded at length to the repeated entreaties of 
his son, and to those friends who indulged ardent hopes of the youth's 
future eminence if he could obtain a classical education. All obstacles 
being surmounted, he entered college in 1763, and his reputation while 
there, justified the predictions of his friends ; for he graduated with a 
distinguished part in the commencement exercises of 1767. On leaving 
college, he took charge of the school at Roxbury, at which he had 
received his preparatory education for admission to the University. He 
continued in this situation for two years, during which time his name 
stood as a student in the ofiice of Samuel Quincy, an eminent Barrister 
and Solicitor-general of the Province. The late President, John 
Adams (to whom he applied for admission as a student at law, in his 
office, which at the time was full), in a letter to his son, gives the follow- 
ing testimony to his character in early life : " I knew the young gentle- 
man was a promising genius, and a studious and virtuous youth." 

In 1770, Sumner was admitted to the bar, and opened his office in 
Roxbury. The people found him worthy of confidence, and his business 
in the profession soon became extensive and lucrative. 

In the year 1776, a period in our country's history of great difficul- 
ties and fearful apprehensions, Mr. Sumner was chosen a member of the 
General Court, and continued to represent his native town the three 
following years. In the Convention of 1777, for agreeing on a form 



GOVERNOR INCREASE SUMNER. 83 

of government, he held a seat; and in 1780 he was elected a Senator 
for the county of Suffolk; which office he held the two succeeding 
years, by the almost unanimous choice of his constituents. 

On the 30th of September, 1779, he was united in marriage to Miss 
Elizabeth Hyslop, the daughter of William Hyslop, Esq., of Boston; 
a woman of great intelligence, and of a remarkably amiable character. 
She was afterwards distinguished by her dignified presence, and no one 
could more acceptably have filled the high stations to which he in- 
troduced her. In the same year, he was chosen a member of the con- 
vention for forming a State constitution, the first plan not having been 
approved and adopted by the people. 

In June, 1782, he was chosen a member of Congress by the Legis- 
lature of Massachusetts, but he never took his seat in that body. 

In August of the same year, he was made an associate Justice of 
the Supreme Judicial Court. This was an important position, it being 
so soon after our conflict with the mother country that every thing was 
in an unsettled state, and the judges had difficult and painful duties to 
perform. He was then only thirty-six years of age, but the public had 
confidence in his integrity and ability, and the Court considered him an 
acquisition to the bench. As a nation, we owe much to the firmness and 
independence of our judiciary at that time ; and consequently to the 
individuals who were called to officiate in the capacity of judges. 

His preference at this time for a judicial rather than a political 
office, both of which were presented to his acceptance, was the turning 
point of his pursuits in life. For the judicial office he proved himself 
to be eminently qualified, and it cannot be doubted that had he entered 
the political arena at the time the choice was made, he would have been 
equally distinguished. He continued upon the bench for a long course 
of fifteen years, approving himself to the public as a dispassionate, im- 
partial, discerning, able and accomplished judge. 

On the 20th of January, 1785, Judge Sumner, by a special resolve 
of the Legislature, was added to the Committee to revise the laws of 
the Commonwealth. This Committee, which was chosen the year before, 
consisted of Hon. Francis Dana, Hon. Samuel Dexter, and Theophilus 



84 THE GRANABY BURIAL GROUND. 

Parsons, Esq. He was a member of the Massachusetts Convention, which 
was called in 1789, for the purpose of discussing the Constitution for 
the Federal Government, which had been sent to the several States for 
their adoption. This was a question of the highest moment, requiring 
for its discussion those qualities of mind with which he was eminently 
endowed. Profound lawyers, able politicians, and eloquent orators were 
sought by the people for this body. The prosperity, dignity, and 
strength of the nation were involved in its deliberations and decisions. 
In this Convention Mr. Sumner bore an important part, and made 
several impressive speeches. 

In 1796, without consenting to be a candidate for that office. Judge 
Sumner received the spontaneous suffrages of a large portion of the 
people of Massachusetts to fill the office of Chief Magistrate. Objec- 
tions were made to his removal from the Supreme bench to the Chair 
of State, on account of the capacity, fidelity and usefulness with which 
he served the community in the judicial department. But the public, 
rightly judging that the integrity and capacity with which he filled 
the office of a judge were the surest pledge of his fidelity and useful- 
ness in a still higher and more important station, turned their attention 
to him as the most suitable person for their Governor. Such was his 
popularity, that he received the first year he was chosen, three fifths of 
the whole number of votes for the office, and so acceptable was his 
administration, that the third and last year he received more than seven- 
teen thousand out of the twenty-one thousand votes cast ; one hundred 
and eighty towns, out of three hundred and ninety-three, giving him 
their unanimous vote ; there were besides these, sixty other towns, and 
some of them very large ones, which gave eight votes and less against 
him. In his position as Chief Magistrate, he showed the same careful 
attention to the new duties he was called to perform as he had done in 
other situations. 

He was re-elected thrice, but the last time was languishing on a bed 
of sickness at the time the General Court assembled, and having taken 
the oaths of office in his chamber, before a Committee of the Legislature, 
he was, notwithstanding, unable to enter upon the duties of the office. 



GOVERNOR INCREASE SUMNER. 85 

He died soon after, June 7, 1799, in the 53d year of his age, to the 
unspeakable grief of an affectionate family, and of a sympathizing com- 
munity. No Governor of Massachusetts was ever more loved and 
venerated than Governor Sumner; for his amiable disposition, conciliating 
manners, and unblemished integrity both as a Judge and a Chief Magis- 
trate, had rendered him the object of universal respect and confidence. 

He added to his popularity by his attention to the military depart- 
ment, which had not been cherished with any particular fondness by any 
of his predecessors in office. He felt it to be his duty to attend in 
person the reviews of the militia in various places, and considered that, 
as the great reserved power of the State, the militia deserved the par- 
ticular countenance of the Governor, who was its constitutional com- 
mander-in-chief. 

The death of such a magistrate, and at such a crisis, was a most 
serious public calamity, and was recognized as such in various ways. 
On the day of his funeral, business was suspended, the shops were 
closed, and the expressions of sorrow and mourning were every where 
visible. His remains were interred with military honors at the public 
expense. The procession extended from Roxbury to the State House in 
Boston. The militia officers afterwards attended church in their uniforms, 
with black crape on their arms ; and weeds, or badges of respect for his 
memory, were generally worn by the citizens for forty days. Testimo- 
nials of liis worth, and their high appreciatiorl of his character, were 
given by the Lieutenant-governor and both Houses of the Legislature ; 
and they recognized in him an assemblage of virtues and talents, which 
eminently qualified him for his dignified station. From these testimo- 
nials, the following are selected : 

" In him were singularly united all those virtues, which conciliate 
affection and command respect The dignity of his person, the equanim- 
ity and mildness of his temper, his real and unafi"eeted piety, his natural 
and acquired talents, rendered him an ornament to society and a blessing 
to the world. 

" His knowledge and discernment enabled, and his regard for the 
public good prompted him, to make the most judicious appointments. 



86 THE GKANARY BURIAL GROUND. 

A correct and enlightened understanding, and a long and intimate 
acquaintance with the science of jurisprudence, qualified him to form 
just opinions of the expediency and constitutionality of such legislative 
acts as were submitted to his consideration. The whole tenor of his 
life evinced the sincerity of his religious professions, and his unaffected 
patriotism. His candor and sincerity, the purity of his mind and in- 
variable rectitude of his conduct, will long secure him a place in their 
grateful remembrances. 

" His person was attractive and commanding. He was of elevated 
stature, and well proportioned. His countenance was remarkable for 
composure, and was often lighted up with a smile of peculiar sweetness. 
Many a young practitioner at the bar has borne testimony to the pleasure 
and relief he felt when he was addressing the Court in fear and trembling, 
in catching the looks of Judge Sumner ; looks of encouragement and pro- 
tection which never disappointed the youthful advocate. In his manners 
he was polite and unassuming, yet dignified and manly. He never forgot 
or compromised his dignity in any place or circle, even in the moments of 
his greatest familiarity. His mind was naturally strong, and its various 
powers were well balanced. He was remarkably free from every thing 
that had the appearance of party spirit or rancour. His candor and 
moderation were known to all men. He possessed an unusual degree of 
self-command. Divesting himself of prejudice and passion, he examined 
with deliberation and impartiality, and decided with rectitude and 
wisdom. His cool and dispassionate temper reflects more honor on his 
memory, inasmuch as it was less the effect of a peculiarly happy con- 
stitutional temperament, than of moral discipline and culture, and the 
benign influence of a religious principle. 

" Humility without meanness, the incontestable proof of a superior 
mind, was a distinguishing trait in his character. No one ever heard or 
saw in his conversation or deportment, any thing that had the appear- 
ance of pride, vanity, or afi"ectation ; or that could be construed into an 
ostentatious display of his own talents, virtues, or services. 

" Though raised to the highest dignity it was in the power of the 
citizens of the Commonwealth to bestow, he was never accused or sua- 



GOVEENOR INCREASE SUMNER. 87 

peeted of employing any unworthy arts to gain the popular favor ; nor 
of obtruding himself on the public as a candidate for places of power 
and trust. On the contrary, such was his modesty, that when he found 
the eyes of the community were turned upon him, he appeared not a 
little surprised and ' disordered at the deep regard he drew.' 

" Having come into possession of a considerable property by the death 
of his father-in-law, Mr. Hyslop, which took place the year before his 
election, he was enabled to maintain a hospitality and appear in a style 
of life in accordance with the generous and social qualities of his heart, 
and to support the dignity of his station as First Magistrate of a great 
and respectable Commonwealth. He was liberal in his receptions of all 
public characters and strangers of distinction, and devoted much larger 
sums to the hospitality becoming a chief magistrate, and to the main- 
tenance of the dignity of the government, than his mere salary would 
have afforded. 

'' In the more private and tender relations of life he was uncommonly 
amiable, — a devoted son, a loving and attentive husband, a kind and 
affectionate father and friend. The purity of his morals was never 
called in question, and the manner of his life was in a singular degree 
blameless and exemplary. 

" He was a substantial practical farmer, and attended personally to 
the cultivation of the soil, set an example of good husbandry to his 
neighbors, and taught its principles and practice to his sou. He was 
fond of agriculture, and gave his attention to improvement in the 
methods of carrying on its various branches. 

" He was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences ; 
and if it were permitted to us to enlarge, we could show, how, by his 
coolness and firmness, and his confidence in the General Governmeni, 
he did much to support it, at a period when the elements of our politi- 
cal establishments were severely tested. With the illustrious man, 
John Adams, who was at that time President of the United States, he 
had long been associated ; he loved him as a friend and kinsman, and 
respected him as a statesman. 

" In early life, and about the time he entered on the practice of the 



88 THE GRANAEY BURIAL GROUND. 

law, lie made a public profession of Christianity as the rule of his 
religious faith and practice, and became a member of the Congregational 
Society and Church of the Rev. Dr. Porter, in Roxbury. He was im- 
pressed with an habitual sense of the truths of religion, and of the 
importance of its institutions. The temptations of affluence and bland- 
ishments of polished life did not, as it too frequently happens, unsettle 
his principles and corrupt his morals, and thus make shipwreck of faith 
and a good conscience ; but he held fast his integrity to the end, and 
was justly esteemed an exemplary member of the church." 

The closing scene of bis life was not the least interesting and 
instructive. Dr. Porter, who visited him by his request, at a time of 
his sickness when he appeared to have the full exercise of his reason, 
and to be apprehensive that his departure was near, thus relates a part 
of his conversation, in his excellent funeral discourse : 

" A dying bed," he said, " is not the place for one to begin to attend 
to his religion and prepare for another world. I have not been unmind- 
ful of these concerns. I have thought much of them. The more I 
have reflected on the subject of religion, the more has my mind been 
settled and confirmed in its reality and importance. I am sensible that 
many infirmities and errors have attended me, but I trust I have the 
testimony of my conscience to the general rectitude of my views and 
conduct in life." 

" At a subsequent period," says Dr. Porter, " on the conclusion of the 
office of devotion, performed at his request, he said, with a gesture and em- 
phasis, the impression of which I shall not easily lose, ' I am resigned.' " 

Thus, having scarcely passed the meridian of life, ended the mortal 
career of an exemplary magistrate and citizen, whose conduct and 
example made an indelible impression upon the community, and whom 
his fellow-citizens delighted to honor while living, and sincerely mourned 
when dead. His remains were deposited in the northerly corner of the 
Granary Burial Ground, near the Athenaeum. 

The following epitaph, written by the erudite Samuel L. Knapp, 
Esq., is inscribed upon a monument, which was erected to his memory 
by his family, an engraving of which is hereto appended : 



GOVEKNOR INCREASE SUMNER. 89 

HERE KEPOSE THE REMAINS OF 

INCREASE SUMNER, 

HE WAS BORN AT ROXBURY, NOVEMBER 27TH, 1746, 

AND DIED AT THE SAME PLACE, JUNE 7TH, 1799, 

IN THE 53D YEAR OF HIS AGE. 

HE WAS FOR SOME TIME A PRACTITIONER AT THE BAR ; 
AND FOF^ FIFTEEN YEARS AN ASSOCIATE JUDGE OF THE SUPREME 

JUDICIAL court; 

WAS THRICE ELECTED GOVERNOR OF MASSACHUSETTS, 

IN WHICH OFFICE HE DIED. 

AS A LAWYER, HE WAS FAITHFUL AND ABLE ; 

AS A JUDGE, PATIENT, IMPARTIAL, AND DECISIVE; 

AS A CHIEF MAGISTRATE, ACCESSIBLE, FRANK, AND INDEPENDENT 

IN PRIVATE LIFE HE WAS AFFECTIONATE AND MILD, 

IN PUBLICK LIFE HE WAS DIGNIFIED AND FIRM. 

PARTY FEUDS WERE ALLAYED BY THE CORRECTNESS OF HIS CONDUCT; 

CALUMNY WAS SILENCED BY THE WEIGHT OF HIS VIRTUES ; 

AND RANCOUR SOFTENED BY THE AMENITY OF HIS MANNERS. 

IN THE VIGOUR OF INTELLECTUAL ATTAINMENTS, 

AND IN THE MIDST OF USEFULNESS, 

HE WAS CALLED BY DIVINE PROVIDENCE 

TO REST WITH HIS FATHERS; 

AND WENT DOWN TO THE CHAMBERS OF DEATH 

IN THE FULL BELIEF THAT THE GRAVE 

IS THE PATHWAY TO FUTURE EXISTENCE. 

AS IN LIFE HE SECURED THE SUFFRAGES OF THE FREE, 

AND WAS BLESSED WITH THE APPROBATION OF THE WISE, 

SO IN DEATH HE WAS HONORED BY THE TEARS OF THE PATRIOTIC, 

AND IS HELD IN SWEET REMEMBRANCE 

BY A DISCERNING AND AFFECTIONATE PEOPLE. 

DISCITE VIRTUTEM EX HOC, VERUMQUE LABOREM. 



90 THE GRANARY BURIAL GROUND. 



SKETCH OF THAT PART OF THE SUMNER FAMILT TO WHICH GOVERNOR 
SUMNER BELONGED, AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 

Roger Sumner, from whom this family descended, was an inhah- 
itant of Bicester, in the county of Oxford, England, where he married 
Joan Franklin, 2d November, 1601. He was buried in St. Edburg 
Church-yard, at Bicester, 4th December, 1G08. He had one son, 
William. 

William Sumner, only son and heir of Roger, was baptized at 
Bicester, 27th January, 1604-5; married Mary West, 22d October, 
1625; came to Dorchester, Massachusetts, about 1635. He was made a 
freeman in 1637, after which his name appears on almost every page of 
the Town Records during the period of his active life. In 1645, he 
was appointed one of a committee for building a new meeting-house. 
He was admitted to the church in 1652 ; was for twelve years a Deputy 
to the General Court, and a Selectman twenty-three years. He was 
also a Rater for five years, and one of the three Commissioners (or 
Magistrates) " to try and issue small causes " for nine years, when the 
office ceased. His wife died in Dorchester, 7th June, 1676. He died 
there 9th December. 1688, aged about eighty-three years. He had 
seven children — William,* Roger, George, Samuel, Increase, Joan, and 
Abigail. 

GrEORGE Sumner, the third son of William, was baptized at Bicester, 
1st March, 1633-4 ; was brought to Dorchester, Massachusetts, with 
two elder brethren, by their father, probably in 1635. He married 
Mary Baker, daughter of Edward Baker, of Northampton, Massachu- 
setts, 7th November, 1662. He was a deacon of the church in Milton, 
and died there 11th December, 1715, in the eighty-second year of his 
age. She died 1st December, 1719, aged seventy-seven. They had 
eight children — Mary, George, Samuel, William, Ebenezer, Edward, 
Joseph, and Benjamin. 

* For a full account of this and other branches of the Sumner family, see N. E. 
Hist, and Gen. Reg. vol. viii. p. 128 d. vol, ix p. 297. 



GOVERNOR INCREASE SUMNER. 91 

Edward Sumner, the fifth son of George, was born 29th August, 
1675. He married Elizabeth, daughter of Elder Samuel and Hannah 
Clap, of Dorchester, 25th Se^Dtember, 1701. He died in Roxbury, 
probably in 1763, aged eighty-eight years. They had eleven children — 
Edward, Elizabeth, John, Elizabeth, Samuel, Increase, Hannah, Mary, 
Nathaniel, Ebenezer, and Benjamin. 

Increase Sumner, the fourth son of Edward, was born 9th June, 
1713. He married Sarah, daughter of Robert Sharp (who was born 
25th August, 1719), on the 28th October, 1736. He was appointed 
Coroner for the county of Suffolk, by Lieutenant Governor Phips, in 
the year 1752 ; was one of the Selectmen of Roxbury in 1753 and in 
1756 ; died in Roxbury, 28th November, 1774, aged sixty-one years. 
His widow died 21st June, 1796, in the seventy-seventh year of her 
age. They had eight children — Sarah, Susannah, Susannah, Elizabeth, 
Susannah, Increase, Edward, and Lucy. 

Increase Sumner, eldest son of Increase, was born in Roxbury, 
27th November, 1746 ; graduated at Harvard College 1767 ; married 
Elizabeth, daughter of "William and Mehetable Hyslop, 30th September, 
1779 ; was Representative to the General Court 1776-1779 ; Senator 
1780-1782 ; was chosen Representative to Congress in June, 1782, but 
never took his seat, preferring the office of Associate Justice of the Su- 
preme Judicial Court, to which he was appointed by Governor Hancock, 
in August of the same year. That office he held until 1797, when he was 
chosen Governor. He was a member of the Convention for forming a 
State Constitution in 1777, and again in 1779 ; a member of the Massa- 
chusetts Convention for the adoption of the Constitution of the United 
States in 1789 ; a member of the American Academy of Arts and 
Sciences; was chosen Governor of Massachusetts, three years, 1797- 
1799 ; and the last year took the oaths of office on his death bed, and 
died 7th June, 1799, in the fifty-third year of his age. His widow 
died 28th December, 1810, aged fifty-three. They had three children — 
William Hyslop, Mehetable Stoddard, and Eliza. 

William Hyslop Sumner, only son of Governor Sumner, was born in 
Roxbury, 4th July, 1780 ; graduated at Harvard College 1799 ; studied 



92 THE GRANARY BURIAL GROUND. 

law in the office of the Hon. John Davis, and was admitted to the bar in 
1803; was aide-de-camp to Grovernors Strong and Brooks; to the former 
in 1806, and from May 1813 to 1816 ; and to the latter from June 1816 to 
1818, in which year he was appointed Adjutant-general, as successor to 
General Mattoon, by Governor Brooks. He held that and the Quarter- 
master-general's office under Governors Brooks, Eustis, Morton, Lin- 
coln and Davis, until 1834, sixteen years, when he resigned. In 1808, 
and the eleven following years, he was one of the Representatives of the 
town of Boston in the General Court. On the 10th September, 1814, 
he was appointed by Governor Strong, Executive Agent to repair to the 
District of Maine (which was then invaded by the enemy), and directed, 
" promptly to provide every practicable means for the defence of that 
part of the State." For this purpose the discretionary power of placing 
the militia in the service of the United States was confided to him by 
Governor Strong, and executed by the Governor's approbation. On 
the same day, the Commissioners for sea coast defence (Hon. David 
Cobb, CoL Timothy Pickering, and General John Brooks), also confided 
to him their full power, acting as Commissary-general and Quarter- 
master-general, under which he had to provide quarters, arms, ammu- 
nition, and rations for the troops, &c. To his performance of all these 
duties acceptably he was probably indebted in 1818, for his appointment 
of Adjutant-general by Governor Brooks, in preference to several other 
competitors of great influence and experience. In December, 1814, he 
was appointed by the Board of War (composed of Lieutenant-Governor 
Edward H. Bobbins, Benjamin Weld, Daniel Sargent, Silas Holman, of 
Massachusetts, and Colonel Lewis, of Gorham, Maine), to draw on them 
and to borrow money of the banks, and pay off the troops which had 
been called out in Maine. He disbursed over $200,000, and upon his 
return the President of the Board expressed his thanks for the correct 
and exemplary manner in which he had performed the duties committed 
to his charge, and the Board allowed him the pay of a full Colonel. In 
1816, he was agent with Hon. James Lloyd to present the Massachu- 
setts claim to the General Government for militia services. Afterward 
he was selected by Secretary Calhoun as a visitor to the West Point 



GOVERNOK INCREASE SUMNER. 93 

Academy. On June 28, 1817, be was appointed to receive President _ 
Monroe at tlie boundary of the State, on his visit to Massachusetts. In 
November, 1826, he was appointed by the Secretary of War (Barbour), 
a member of a Board of Army and Militia officers, of which Major- 
general Scott was President, to report a plan for the organization of 
the militia and a system of cavalry tactics. In 1851 he projected the 
plan of making Noddle's Island a part of the city, which was success- 
fully accomplished, and the name of East Boston given to it. 

He was married : 1st, to Mary Ann Perry, at Bristol, K. I., by Bishop 
Griswold, 4th October, 1826, daughter of Hon. James De Wolf, of 
Bristol, and widow of Raymond H. J. Perry, brother of Commodores 0. 
H. and M. C. Perry. She died in Boston, 14th July, 1834, and was 
buried in her father's tomb, at Bristol. 

2d. To Maria Foster Greenough, at Jamaica Plain, by Rev. Dr. Gray, 
13th December, 1836, daughter of Elisha Doane, of Cohasset, and 
widow of Colonel David S. Greenough. She died 14th November, 1843, 
and was buried in the Greenough tomb, at Jamaica Plain. 

3d. To Mary Dickinson Kemble, of New York, in New Orleans, 
by Rev. Dr. Hawks, 18th April, 1848. She is a daughter of Robert 
Tuite Kemble, and grand-daughter of General John Cadwallader, of 
the Revolutionary army, of Philadelphia; also a niece by marriage 
of the English General and Governor Thomas Gage, of Massachu- 
setts. 

Mehetable Stoddard Sumner, eldest daughter of Governor Sum- 
ner, was born in Roxbury, 1st August, 1784, and married Benjamin 
Welles, of Boston, Ist August, 1815. She died 31st January, 1826. 
She had three children — Elizabeth, Georgiana, and Benjamin Samuel. 

Eliza Sumner, youngest daughter of Governor Sumner, was born at 
Roxbury, 6th October, 1790 ; m. in Boston, by Rev. J. G. Palfrey, to Jas. 
W. Gerard, of New York, 3d October, 1820. They had four children, all 
christened by Rev. Mr. Mortimer, of New York, viz. : — William Sum- 
ner, b. 12th November, 1821 ; died 22d March, 1831. James Watson, 
b. 20th June, 1823. Elizabeth Sumner, b. 15th January, 1826, who m. 
Frederick Wiggin. Juliette Ann, born 24th July, 1832. Mrs. Wig- 



94 THE GKANAEY BURIAL GROUND. 

gin has one son, Frederick Holme, born in London, 2Qih. December, 
1853. 

Elizabeth Welles, eldest daughter of Mehetable Stoddard Sumner 
and Benjamin Welles, was born 13th August, 1816; m. Stephen H. 
Perkins, 9th November, 1847. They had one child, Elizabeth Welles. 
Mrs. P. died 10th February, 1849. 

Georgiana, youngest daughter, was born 22d September, 1818 ; m. 
John 0. Sargent, 17th January, 1854. 

Benjamin Samuel, born 27th December, 1823; m. Katharine Schem- 
erhorn, 6th June, 1850. They have two daughters, Helen, b. 22d May, 
1851. 



LIST OP THOSE BURIED IN THE TOMB, OVER WHICH THE MONUMENT TO GO- 
VERNOR SUMNER IS ERECTED, IN THE GRANARY HURTING GROUND, BOSTON. 

William Hyslop and his wife Mehetable. 

THEIR children: 

James, William, David, Elizabeth, and Mehetable, Betsey (Williams) 
Hyslop, wife of William ; Jane (Woodward) Hyslop, second wife of 
David, 

AND THEIR CHILDREN : 

David, Jane, Mehetable Stoddard, Mary Ann, (Jane, widow of David 
Hyslop, subsequently married John Hayden, and her remains, with 
those of her husband and children, were afterwards removed to Mount 
Auburn.) 

Governor Increase Sumner and his wife Elizabeth. 

Mrs. Ann Kemble, relict of Robert Tuite Kemble, of New York. She 
was the mother of Mrs. W. H. Sumner, and was born 27th Novem- 
ber, 1771; married in Philadelphia, by Bishop White; died at Ja- 
maica Plain, Mass. 6th August, 1850, aged 79 years. 



GOVEENOR INCREASE SUMNEE. 95 



SOME ACCOUNT OF THE HYSLOP FAMILY. 

William Hyslop, Esq., son of James Hyslop, was baptized 26tli Septem- 
ber, 1714. He came to Boston, from Humly parish, near Hadding- 
ton Co., East Lowdeu, in Scotland, and was a merchant in Boston as 
early as 1746. Mr. Hyslop married Mehetable, daughter of David 
and Elizabeth Stoddard. (Elizabeth Stoddard was the widow of 
Samuel Shrimpton, jr., whose daughter Elizabeth married John Yea- 
mans, the father of Shute Shrimpton Yeamans, the testator.) She 
died 19th November, 1792, in the 74th year of her age. He died 
11th August, 1790, in the 83d year of his age. Children: — 
(1.) — James, born 17th Sei3tember, 1751 ; died 9th May, 1752. 
(2.) — William, born 6th November, 1753, m. Betsy Williams, of Salem, 

11th June, 1787; he died 9th July, 1792, JE. 39. 
(3.) — David, born 28th December, 1755, m. Elizabeth Stone, of Concord, 
September, 1793; she died at York, Me., 6th June, 1808. He 
m. 2d, Jane, daughter of Joseph and Jane Woodward, of South 
Boston, 19th October, 1809. She was born 9th September, 
1783; died 13th October, 1848. He died 16th August, 1822, 
M. 67. Their children were: David, b. 27th October, 1810; 
Jane, b. 4th January, 1814; d. 13th September, 1823. Mehe- 
table Stoddard, b. 11th February, 1817; d. 15th June, 1818. 
Mary Ann, b. 30th July, 1818; d. 15th February, 1819. David, 
d. 29th September, 1831, leaving his mother (Jane) his sole heir 
of all his estate but the homestead in Brookline, the reversion of 
which, his father by will had given to his sister Mrs. Sumner's 
children. 
Jane, the widow of David, m. John Hayden, 22d May, 1825. He 
was born 11th July, 1768; d. 15th July, 1844. Mrs. H. had 
no child by her second husband. Mr. Hayden had several chil- 
dren by his first wife, all of whom died in infancy, excepting two, 
who survived him, viz. : John C. a physician in Boston, b. 23d 
September, 1801 ; and William Augustus, b. 29t\ March, 1805. 



96 THE GRANAET BURIAL GROUND. 

(4.) — Elizabeth^ b. 5tli August, 1757, who m. Governor Sumner 30th 

September, 1779. See Genealogy. 
(5.) — Mehetable, born and died 15th September, 1763. 

Mrs. Mehetable S. Welles, eldest daughter of Governor Sumner, 

died 31st July, 1826, and was buried in her husband's tomb, 

under Trinity Church, in Boston. 



Some constitutional points, which the sickness and death of Gov. 
Sumner involved, may be seen in the " interesting recollections of his 
last days," by the Hon. Daniel Davis, late Solicitor-General. These 
are to be found in a note to the memoir of the Governor, which is too 
long to be inserted here, printed in the New England Historical and 
Genealogical Register, vol. viii. p. 124. 

Upon a perusal of this note, a literary and sympathetic friend 
remarked, " I know of nothing in the history of public men, so curious 
and touching, not to say useful, as the circumstances of Gov. Sumner's 
inauguration into the office of chief magistrate on his deathbed. One 
cannot wonder at the emotions which overwhelmed his friends who were 
obliged to participate in that ceremony." 




Sitmutr 



This coat of arms was copied from one in the Herald's College, in 1853, 
and was certified by Sir Charles Youxg, of that office, to be the Somner 
arms of the County of Kent, recorded at the visitation of that county 
in 1663. 

Arms. — Ermines. 2 Chevronels Or. 

Crkst. — A Lion's head erased. Ermines, langued Gules and ducally, 
gorged Or. 

Motto. — In medio tutissimus ibis. 

This motto was adopted by Governor Sumner. 



NER. 



Her second husband was Marcus 
ried 10 Jan. 1611. 



born 
Eliz 
tine 
Mas 
is th 
Dav 



izabeth, flau. of 
ler Samuel and 
iinali Clap, of 
irciiester ; mar. 
lia23Sept. 1701. 



bor 
1663=1 



Edw 
bey 

16 .( 
!7a 



San 
in.l> 
than 
W 
che 
ter 



Oii^, 



CX^t^ 



Increase, 
born in Dorchester, 
23 Feb. 161-2; mar. 

Sarah Staples, 
26 March, 1667, and 
went to South Caro- 
lina. 



Joan, 

m. Aaron Way; 

liad 22 children 

and heirs. 



Abigail, 

d. 19>eb 

1657. 



Joseph, 
born 26 August, 
1677; wife Sa- 
rah ; settled in 

Mendon. 



Benjamin, 
born 15 Dec. 1683 ; 
m. Elizabeth Bad- 
cock, 3 May, 1706 ; 
had eight chiliiren. 
He died in 1771. 



, 1715; 
V. John 
IH.C. 

Ed^ar- 
[17; died 
. 2ci, 
letcalf, 
'66, and 
t 1798. 



Mary, 

born 9 Oct. 

1717; mar. 

Rev. Thos. 

Raich of 

Dedham, 

11 Oct. 

1733. 



Nathaniel, 

b. in 1?18; 

H.C.1739; 

died in 

Dedham. 

23 Dec. 

1802. 



Ebenezer, 

b. 10 June, 

1722; died 

13 Nov. 

1745. 



Benjamin, 
b. 29 Dec. 

1724. 



I, dau. of 
and Me- 
Hyslop, 
ig. 1757 ; 
pt. 1773 ; 
;. 1810, 
years. 



Edward, 

born 
25 May, 

1749; 
d. Aug. 

1749. 



Lucy, 
b. 29 June, 
1751; died 
12 March, 

1813. 



William Bowman, 
born 8 Jan. 1744; 
grad. H. C. 1764; 
mar. 5 June, 1777; 
d. in Dorchester, 
21 March, 1818, 



es,m. 1 Aug. 1815; 
>usan Codman, by 
dau. Susan, who 
gis,Jr., 14Jan.l856. 



Jonathan. William, Henry. 

a Capt. U. S. 
Army, 1814. 

Eliza, = James W. Gi-rard, 



born 6 Oct 
1790. 



of New York ; 
3 Oct. 1820. 



James Watson. Elizabeth Sii 



I'EDIGIIEE OF THE DIRECT LINE OF GOV. SUMNER. 



Bogec .Sumner, 

1 the County of Oxford. England. Will dated 3 Oec. 1608 j 
prnved at Oxford, 22 Alarrli, IG08-9. He was hurled in St. Edburg 
churchyartf, , " '*' ' "^ 



JJoan jFcanWin. 

Married at Bicester, 2 November. IGOI. Her secc 
Brian, whom slie married 10 Ja 



only son and heir; bap. in St. Edburg; Church, at Bicester, 27 Jan. 1601-5: 
cnmo to Dorchester, New Kneland, wilh his wife and three sons, William, 
Roger, and George, about 1636; died 9 Dec. 1681!. The annexed autograph 



William, = Mary West, married 22 Oct. 1623; 



I a fac-similc of the signature to his i 



dated 23 June, 1681. 



died 7 June, 1676. 



Oo^, 



Elizabeth dnu. of Augus- 
tine Clement, ofDnrchesler, 
Mass.: had lOchildrcn. He 



Roger, 
bap. at Bicester, 8 Aug. 1632; m. 
Mary, dau. of Thomas and Rebec- 
ca Josselyn, of Hingham, Mass.; 
had seven children He is the 
r of Hon. Charles 
of Col. Edwin V. 
Sumner, of U. 8. Army. He died 
in Milton, Mass., 26 ftlay, 1698. 



George, 
bpip. at Bicester, 
•|March, 1633-4; 
Dorchester, 
ss., 1 1 Dec. 
1715. 



t 



Mary, dau. of Eilward 
Baker, of Norlbamp- 
ton, Mass.; .niirricd 

7 November, 166;!. 

She died 1 Dec. 1719, 

aged 77. 



bom in Dorclicslcr. 

Mass., 18 May, 

1631!; wife Kcl»;-ca; 

m. 7 Slarch, 1658-9. 

They went lo South 

Carolina. 



Increase, 
born ill Dorchester, 
23 Feb. 1612 ; mar. 

Sarah Staples, 
26 March, 1667, and 
went 1.) South Car<i- 



,1 

Joan, 

m. Aaron Way; 

had 22 children 

and heirs. 



Abigail, 

d. 19 Keb. 

1657. 



Su 



1733; 

™. Ann Tucker of Roxbury ; 

ail 9 children. Rev. Joseph 
ler. D. D. of Shrewsbury 
was of this branch. 



Samuel, 
horn 19 Oct. 1669; 
supposed lo have 



William, 
n 7 April, 167 



Ehenc/.er, 

born 9 Dec. 1673; 

wife Silence. 

They settled in 

Meudon, Mass. 



Edwaru, 

horn ill Roxliury, 
I'J August, 1675 ; 
J. there in 1763. 



Elizabeih, ilau. of 
Elder Samuel and 
Hannah Clap, of 
Dorchester ; mar. 
23 Sept. 1701. 



Joseph, 
born 26 August, 
1677; wife Sa- 
rah ; settled in 

Mendou. 



in. Elizabeth Bad- 
cock, 3 May, 1706 ; 
had eiglit children. 
He died in 1771. 



Edward, 

16 ' July, 
1702." 



Elizabeih 
born 

:«) April, 

and di.'il 

19 Jinir, 

1701.. 



Elizabeih. 
rad. Harv. born 7 April, 1708; 

Susannah m. Benjamin Bovls- 
7.'9; mar. ton, 30 Nov. 1727. 

lie was a He was son of Peter 



Rox- 






rcsiilc I al Edgarlown, 
{y his first wife he hail 
two children, Susannah and 
Deacon Samuel, of Roxbiiry. 
He died In December, 1787. 



.*^amuel, 
born 21 Oct. 1710; 
m. Abigail Mather, bury, 9th 
May,1710; shedicd June, 1713; 
about 1766. His 2d d. there. 28 
wifewasMaryWeld, Nov. 1774. 
mar. U May, 1767. 
He had 7 children, 
four of them by his 



I.VCBEASE, = Sarah, daiighlerof 
Rol)ert Sharp, of 
Brookline, anil a 
cousin of Susan- 
nah Bnylsioii, (he 
mother of Presi- 
dent John Adams. 
She was born 23 
Aug. 1719; mar. 
28 Oct. 1736; died 
21 June, 1796. 



Hannah, 
born 8 May, 1715; 
mar. Isl, Uev. John 
Newman, griid.H.C. 
1710; ord. ill Edgar- 
town in 1747; died 
in 1763. She m. 2d. 
Joiiaihaii Mplcalf, 
27 Aug. 1766, and 
died about 1798. 



Mary, 
born 9 Oct. 
1717; mar. 
Rev. Thos. 

Balch of 
Dedham, 

11 Oct. 

1733. 



Nalhaniel, 

b. in inii; 

H.C.1739; 

died in 

Dedham. 

23 Dec. 

1802. 



Ebciiezcr, 

b. 10 June. 

1722; died 

13 Nov. 

1745. 



I.. 3 Jan. 


Davis, of 


b 24 May. 


1737. 


Brookline; 


1710; die. 




m. 1!) Aug. 


27 April, 




1756. 


1712. 






m. Na- father of 




ihaniel Thomas 




Win- Aspinwall 




ches- Davis, 




ler. who was 


Married Is 


Mayor of 




Boston in 




181.% and 




died the 






urne year. 





Susannah, 

b. 22 May, 

1742 ; died 

3 June, 

1712. 



I7'13 ; oied 
31 May, 



Charles Cushinj, 
bom in 173<1; H. 
C. 1755 ; mar. 25 
Aug. 1768 ; .lied 
in Boston, 7 Nov. 
1810. 



Susannah, 

d! 22 June! 
1745. 



Elizabeih. Mary. Charleii 



Sarah. Lucy. Harriet. 



INCREASE. ■■ 
born in Roxbury. 27 
Nov. 1746; Justice of 
S. J. C. from 1782 
11111797; Governor of 
Mass. from 1797 till 
his death in Roxbury, 
7June,1799,iE.53. 



: Elizabeih, dau. of 
William and Me- 
helable Hyslop, 
born 5 Aug. 1757 ; 
m.30.-Jept. 1773; 
d. 28 Dec. 1810, 
aged 53 years. 



= Williani Bowman, 
born » Jan. 1744 ; 
grad. II C. 1764; 
mar. 5 June, 1777; 
d. in Dorchester, 
21 March, 1818. 



William Htsi.op, born 4ih . lulv, 1780. 
, Marv Ann Perry, 4 Oct. 1826 ; sh. ; d'led 14 July, 1831 ; 
Maria V. Greenbugh, 13 Dec. 18,% ; she died 14 Nov. 1843; 
Mary I). Kemblo, 18 April, 1818. 



Mehetable Stoddard, = Uenji 
born 1 Aug. 1784; 
died 31 Jan. 1826. 



Welles, m. I Aug 1815; 
second wife Susan Codman, by 
whom he had one dau. Susan, who 
m. Russell Sturgis, Jr., I4Jau.l856. 



Eliza. 

born 6 Oct. 

1790. 



William. Henry, 
a Capt. U. S. 
Army, 1814. 

: James W. G.rard, 

of New York; m. 

3 Oct. 1820. 



James Watson. Elizabeih Sumner Juliclle An 



INSCBIPTIONS. 
HERE LYE ****** 

WIFE OF MR. WILLIAM LEE, 
AGED 63 YEARS, DEC'D SEPT. YE 18, 1737 

HERE LYES YE BODY OF 

MRS. ABIGAIL PERKINS, 

WIFE OF DR. JOHN PERKINS, 

DIED MARCH 18TH, 1748-9. 

CARA TERRIS, CARA COELIS. 

ABIGAIL PERKINS, 
DAUGHTER OF MR. JOHN PERKINS, PHYSICIAN, 
OBI IT DEC'R 24TH, 1766, **** 29. 



97 



HERE LYES 

THE BODY OF 

PILGRIM SIMPKINS, 

AGED ABOUT 96 YEARS, DEc'd 

DECEMBER 3d. 1720. 



HERE LYES 

THE BODY OP 

KATHERINE SIMPKINS, 

AGED ABOUT 86 YEARS, DEC'd 

APRIL YE 17tH, 1721. 



[Note,] These stones stand about 60 feet southwest of Dr. Franklin's Monument. 



MR. SIMEON ELIOT, 1761. 



98 THE GRANAKY BURIAL GROUND. 

HERE LYES BURIED THE BODY OF 

MRS. OLIMPIA ST. LAWRENCE, 

WIFE TO MR. JOSEPH ST. LAWRENCE, 
DEC'D JUNE YE 8TH, 1747, >ETATIS 33. 



HERE LIES BURIED THE BODY OF 

MRS. AGNESS WEIR, 

WIFE TO MR. JOHN WEIR, 

WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE JANUARY THE 4TH, 

ANNO DOMINI 1757, AGED 52 YEARS. 



JOHN ELIOT, 1757. 



TO THE MEMORY OF 

CAPT. WILL'M CLAGHORN, 

OF NEW BEDFORD, 

WHO DIED IN A FIT OF THE APPOPLEXY, 

ON A VISIT TO THIS TOWN, FEB'Y YE 24TH, 1793. 

IN THE 60TH YEAR OF HIS AGE. 

HERE LIES ENTOMBED, BENEATH THE TURFED CLOD, 

A MAN BELOVED, THE NOBLEST WORK OF GOD; 

WITH FRIENDLY THROBS THY HEART SHALL BEAT NO MOUE, 

CLOS'd THE GAY SCENE, THE POMP OF LIFE IS ORE. 



INSCRIPTIONS. 99 

No. 93. 
JOSEPH TILDEN'S TOMB, 1810. 



HERE LYES YE BODY OF 

MR. SAMUEL JOHNSON, 

LATE OF GREENWICH, IN GREAT BRITAIN, 

AGED ABOUT 32 YEARS 

DEC'D JAN'Y YE 18TH, 1730. 



No. 97. 
J. M. DEXTER AND J. D. RICHARDSON'S TOMB, 1818. 



HERE LIES BURIED THE BODY OF 
MRS. ELISABETH NEWELL 

WIFE OF MR. THOMAS NEWELL, 

WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE 1ST SEPT. 1773, 

AGED 47 YEARS. 

BLESSED ARE THE PEACE MAKERS, FOR THEY SHALt. 
CALLED THE CHILDREN OF GOD." 



No. 98. 
SAMUEL SMITH'S TOMB, 1814. 



100 THE GRANARY BURIAL GROUND. 

No. 92. 
THE TOMB OF JOSIAH STEDMAN. 



IN MEMORY OF 
MRS. MARY GALLOP, 

WIDOW OF CAPT. SAMUEL GALLOP, 

WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE NOV'R 4TH, 1765, 

AGED 38 YEARS 

" THE SWEET REMEMBRANCE OP THE JTJST, 

" SHALL FLOURISH WHEN THEY SLEEP IN DUST." 



No. 90. 
RICHARD DALTON TUCKER'S TOMB, 1810. 



HERE LYES BURIED THE BODY OF 

MR. ROBERT HEWES, 

WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE FEB'RY 20, 1770, 

AGED 60 YEARS. 



No. 105. 
HENRY TOLMAN, 



INSCRIPTIONS. 
No. 104. 
EBENEZER WHITTLE'S TOMB. 1810. 



101 



MARTHA, 

DAUGHTER TO MR. GEORGE AND 

MRS. ABIGAIL HEWES, 

AGED 4 YEARS, 

DIED JUNE YE 11, 1743. 

JOSEPH HEWES, 

DIED JUNE 15, 1748. 



***GA HEWES, 

DIED OCT. 11, 

1748, 

IN THE 13 YEAR OF 
HER AGE. 

EBENEZER HEWES, 

DIED OCT. IOth, 1748, 

AGED 23 MONTHS. 



THE CHILDREN OF MR. GEORGE AND MRS. ABIGAIL HEWES. 



JEDEDJAH BLANCHARD, 1810. 



HERE LYES YE BODY OF 

JOHN GALPINE, 

SON TO CALVIN GALPINE, 

AGED 27 YEARS, 10 MO'S AND 23 D'S, 

DEC'D APRIL YE 17, 1725. 



TOMB OF P. FUNEL, 1742. 



COAT OF ARMS. 



102 THE GRANARY BURIAL GROUND. 

No. 103. 
GILES LODGE'S TOMB, 1810. 



HERE LYES BURIED THE BODY OF 

MR. GEORGE HEWES, 

AGED 49 YEARS, DIED JULY 3d. 1749. 



TOMB. 
HERE LYES BURIED THE BODY OF 

MR. SAMUEL GREENLEAF, 
DEC'D AUG. YE 7, 1737, AGED 56 YEARS. 

MARTHA GREENLEAF, 
WIFE OF MR. SAM'L GREENLEAF, 
DEC'D FEB. 22, 1757, yC. 78, 

MR. JONATHAN GREENLEAF, 
DIED DEC. 23, 1758, /E. 42. 

MR. MOSES GREENLEAF, 

SON TO CAPT. STEPEN GREENLEAF, OF NUBURY, 

DIED MARCH 8, 1753, vE. 55. 



TOMB— REPAIRED BY " SIMPKINS.' 



No. 33. 

BELKNAP. 

1725. 



JEREMY BELKNAP, D.D.* 

Jeremlvh Belknap, who died 1830, and Mary Belknap, his sister, 
who died 1832, were buried in tomb No. 25. 

They were benefactors to the Massachusetts General Hospital, the 
government of which has caused a monumental stone of granite to be 
placed on the tomb, and inscribed with their names. 

Jeremy Belknap, D.D., minister in Boston, and eminent as a writer, 
was borti June 4, 1744, and was a descendant of Joseph Belknap, who 
lived in Boston in 1758. He received the rudiments of learning in 
the grammar school of the celebrated Mr. Lovel, and was graduated 
at Harvard College in 1762. He exhibited at this early period such 
marks of genius and taste, and such talents in writing and conversa- 
tion, as to excite the most pleasing hopes of his future usefulness and 

* Town records, September 27, 1725. " Leave granted to Jeremiah Belkiiap to 
build a tomb. " 

Jeremiah Belknap died 1751, M. 65. He lies buried in a tomb which he built for 
his family. 

Rev. Jeremy Belknap, D.D., a descendant of Jeremiah, died June 20, 1798, M. S-t, 
and was buried in the family tomb, on which is a monumental stone of granite. 



104 THE GRANARY BURIAL GROUND. 

distinction. Having upon his mind deep impressions of the truths of 
religion, he now applied himself to the study of Theology, and he was 
ordained Pastor of the Church in Dover, N. H., February 18, 1767. 
Here he passed near twenty years of his life, with the esteem and aflFec- 
tion of his flock, and respected by the first characters of the State. He 
was persuaded by them to compile his history of Xew Hampshire, which 
gained him a high reputation. 

In 1786 he was dismissed from his people. 

The Presbyterian Church in Boston, becoming vacant by the removal 
of Mr. Annan, and having changed its establishment from the Presbyte- 
rian to the Congregational form, soon invited him to become its Pastor. 

He was accordingly installed, April 4, 1777. Here he passed the 
remainder of his days, discharging the duties of his pastoral office, explo- 
ring various fields of literature, and giving his efficient support to every 
\iseful and benevolent institution. After being subject to frequent 
returns of ill health, he was suddenly seized by a paralytic aff'ection, and 
died June 20, 1798, aged 54 years. Dr. Belknap in his preaching did 
not possess the' graces of elocution ; nor did he aim at splendid diction, 
but presented his thoughts in plain and perspicuous language, that all 
might understand him. Wbile he lived in Boston he avoided controver- 
sial subjects, dwelling chiefly upon the practical views of the gospel. His 
sermons were filled with a rich variety of observations on human life and 
manners. He was peculiar in giving religious instruction to young 
children, that their feet might early be guided in the way of life. In 
the afternoon preceding his death he was engaged in catechizing the 
youth of his society. 

In the various relations of life his conduct was exemplary. He was 
a member of many literary and humane societies, whose interests he 
essentially promoted. Wherever he could be of any service he freely 
devoted his time and talents. He was one of the Massachusetts Histori- 
cal-Society, the design of which he was induced to form, in consequence 
of a suggestion of Thomas WaUcut of Boston, a diligent collector of old 
and valuable books, as well as on account of his frequent disappointment 
from the loss of valuable papers in prosecuting his historical researches. 



JBREMY BELKNAP^ D.D. 105 

He had been tauglit the value of an association, whose duty it should 
be to collect and preserve manuscripts, arid bring together the materials 
for illustrating the history of our country; and he had the happiness of 
seeing such an institution incorporated in 1794. Dr. Belknap gained a 
high reputation as a writer ; but he is more remarkable for the patience 
jind accuracy of his historical researches, than for elegance of style. His 
deficiency in natural science, as manifested in his history of New Hamp- 
shire, is rendered more prominent by the rapid progress of natural history 
since his death. His Foresters is not only a description of American 
manners, but a work of humor and wit, which went into a second edition. 
Before the Revolution he wrote much in favor of freedom and his country, 
and he afterwards gave to the public many fruits of his labors and 
researches. His last and most interesting work, his American Biography, 
he did not live to complete. He was a decided advocate of our republi- 
can form of government, and ever was a warm friend of the constitution 
of the United States, which he considered the bulwark of our national 
security and happiness. He was earnest in his wishes and prayers for 
the government of the country, and in critical periods took an open and 
unequivocal, and as far as professional and private duties allowed, an 
8 "tive part. The following extract from some lines found among his 
papers, expresses his choice with regard to the manner of his death, and 
the event corresponded with his wishes. 

When faith and patience, hope and love, 
Have made us meet for Heaven above, 
How blest the privilege to rise, 
Snatched in a moment to the skies ? 
Unconscious to resign our breath, 
Nor taste the bitterness of death. 

Dr. Belknap published a sermon on military duty, 1772 ; a serious 
address to a parishioner upon the neglect of public worship ; a sermon 
on Jesus Christ, the only foundation ; an election sermon, 1784 ; history 
of New Hampshire, the first volume in 1784, the second in 1791, and 
the third in 1792; a sermon at the ordination of the Rev. Jedediah 
Morse, 1789 ; a discourse at the request of the Historical Society, Octo- 



106 THE GRANARY BURIAL GROUND. 

ber, 1792j being the completion of the third century from Columbus's 
discovery of America ; disertations upon the character and resurrection 
of Christ, 12mo. ; collection of Psalms and Hymns, 1795; convention 
sermon, 1796; a sermon on the National Fast, May 9, 1793; American 
Biography, first volume in 1794, the second in 1798; the "Foresters," 
an American tale, being a sequel to the history of John Bull the clothier, 
12mo. He published also several essays upon the African trade, upon 
civil and religious liberty, upon the state and settlement of this country, 
in periodical papers in the Columbian Magazine, printed in Philadelphia ; 
in the Boston Magazine, 1784 ; in the historical collections ; and in 
newspapers. Two of his sermons on the institution and observation of 
the Sabbath, were published in 1801. Mass. Hist. Col. vi. x. — xviii. 
Columb. Cent. June 25, 1798. Polyanthos I. 1—13. 



HARRIS. 

Cambridgb, Mass., Feb. 24, 1855. 

Thomas Bridgman, Esq. 

Dear Sir, — Of the " Mr. William Harris," aged about forty years, 
"who departed this life the 17th of May, 1684," and was buried in the 
Granary Burying Ground, in Boston, according to an inscription extant 
therein, very little is known to me. His origin and early history are 
involved in an obscurity that baffles my penetration. He seems to have 
been a merchant engaged in foreign trade. He left a widow (probably 
his second wife), named Sarah, who made her will June 18, 1702, by 
which she bequeathed real estate in Boston to her " son-in-law, William 
Harris, of Boston, merchant." The last named, who is presumed to 
have been the son of the Mr. William Harris who died in 1684, s^t this 
date was a minor, and an apprentice to Mr. Humphrey Luscombe, whom, 
together with Mr. William Nelson, of Boston, merchants, he made choice 
of to be his guardians on the 21st March, 1685. On the 6th Novem- 
ber, 1689, before which date he must have attained his majority, he 
sold land in the southerly part of Boston, that had formerly been 
assigned to " Mrs. Sarah Harris, widow (sometime Colepot), and by her 
since given to said William Harris, her son-in-law." This gentleman 
also became a respectable merchant in Boston. He was at Port Royal, 
Jamaica, during the great earthquake on the 7th June, 1692. (See 
Sewall's Phenomena Apoealyptica, p. 38.) On the 11th April, 1695, 
he was married to Sarah Crisp, whose mother, also named Sarah, then a 
widow, was subsequently married to Mr. Nathaniel Williams, of Boston, 



108 THE GRANARY BURIAL GROUND. 

merchant. Mr. William Harris was one of the founders of Brattle-streofc 
Society, and was for some time its treasurer. 

" On Friday, the 22d of September, 1721, died at Boston, William 
Harris, Esq., aged fifty -four years and four months, much lamented, 
being a just, peaceable gentleman, a complete merchant, well esteemed 
and beloved by all that knew him. He was honorably interred on 
Tuesday following." He seems to have died without issue, and left the 
greater part of his property to his wife, Sarah. She was married April 
5, 1722, to Hon. John Leverett, President of Harvard College ; subse- 
quently (date not ascertained) to Hon. John Clark, and lastly, on the 
6th May, 1731, to the Rev. Benjamin Colman, Pastor of Brattle-street 
Society. She died April 24, 1744, aged seventy-two. (Turell's Colman, 
p. 208-9.) 

These are all the principal facts that have come to my knowledge 
concerning the family of the foregoing William Harris. The name of 
Harris was quite a common one in various parts of New England in the 
seventeenth century. Whether all the individuals of this name de- 
scended from " three brothers " or any other number, is more than is 
known to me. Probably most of the contemporary heads of families 
were not connected with each other ; at least no evidence of any such 
connection has reached me. I have seen some twenty or more different 
coats of arms, borne by persons of the name of Harris in England, all 
differing more or less essentially from each other. 

I am not aware that any persons in this country are entitled to bear 
any of these save only the descendants of Mr. Stephen Harris, who 
came to this country April, 1700, and set up the first mill for the rolling 
and slitting of iron on the Neponset Biver, in Milton. 
Respectfully yours, 

Thadeus William Harris, M.D. 



INSCRIPTIONS. 109 

No. 102. 
M. MACKAY'S TOMB. 



WILLIAM BREED'S TOMB. 

" THE SWEET REMEMBRANCE OF THE JUST, 

SHALL FLOURISH WHEN THEY SLEEP IN DUST." 

MRS. MARY BREED, 

HIS WIFE, 
DIED AT CONCORD DEC'R 25, 1775, AGED 24. 

JOSEPH, 

THEIR SON 
DIED JAN. 17, 1776, AGED 6 WEEKS. 

MARY, 

THEIR DAUGHTER, 
DIED AT WESTON, AUG. 26, 1802, AGED 28. 

MR. WILLIAM BREED, 
DIED SEPT. 5, 1817, AGED 67. 



No. 101. 
GIDEON SNOW'S TOMB, 1810. 



110 THE GKANARY BURIAL GROUND, 

No. 100. 
BENJA. RUSSELL'S TOMB, 
1810. 



SARAH STUTSON, 

DAU. TO CAPT. LEVI AND MRS. MARY STUTSON, 

DIED APRIL 6TH, 1767, 

AGED 3 YEARS AND 20 DAYS. 

BENEATH, AN INFANT SLEEPING LIES, 

TO EARTH HER ASHES LENT, 
HEREAFTER, MORE GLORIOUS RISE, 

BUT NOT MORE INOCENT. 

WHEN THE archangel's TRUMP SHALL BLOW, 

AND SOULS TO BODY JOIN, 
WHAT CROWDS WILL WISH THEIR LIVES BELOW, 

HAD BEEN AS SHORT AS THINE. 



No. 99. 

THOMAS SUMNER'S TOMB, 

1810. 



INSCRIPTIONS. Ill 

No. 107. 
JOHNSON JACKSON'S TOMB, 
1810. 

MARTIN SMITH. 

JOS. HAWKS, 

1840. 

OLIVER BREWSTER, 

1809. 



JOSIAS BELCHER, 

AGED 52 YEARS, 
DEC'D YE 3D DAY OF APRIL, 16( 



HERE LYES YE BODY OF 
MARY POLLARD, 

WIFE TO SAMUEL POLLARD, 
AGED 56 YEARS AND 6 MO. DIED SEPT. YE 30, 1706. 



No. 89. 

THE TOMB OF PETER DALTON, 

1810. 



HERE LYETH BURIED YE BODY OF 
EDMUND MOUNTFORT, SENIOR, 

BROTHER TO 

HENRY &, BENJAMIN MOUNTFORT. 

LEFT ISSUE SIX SONS AND TWO DAUGHTERS. 

DIED IN YE 61 YEAR OF HIS AGE, 

UPON THE 14 DAY OF AUGUST, 




MOUNTFORT. 

The above, Edmund Mountfort, arrived at Boston in the ship Prov- 
idence, from London, in 1656, from which place he fled in consequence 
of political offences. 

He is called, in " Smith & Dean's Journal," an " educated mer- 



MOUNTFORT. 113 

chant." In 1673 he was one of the contributors to defray the expense 
of a sea-wall in the harbor, to protect the town from an apprehended 
invasion from the French. 

In 1676 his house, warehouse, &c., was destroyed in the "great 
fire." He left the entire of his property to his wife, Elizabeth, during 
her lifCj which was administered on by his two sons, John and Jonathan 
Mountfort, 6th July, 1708, as per Suffolk Probate Court Records. 

He was father of John and Jonathan Mountfort, founders of Tombs 
17 and 19, Copp's Hill Cemetery (vide Bridgman's Memorials of Copp's 
Hill, pp. 81 - 210), and ancestor of all of the name in New England, New 
York, and Louisiana, among whom are the Mountforts of Portland, the 
late Colonel John Mountfort, of the U. S. artillery, who died suddenly 
in Boston, October 22d, 1851 ; Judge Napoleon B. Mountfort, of New 
York; George Mountfort, U. S. Consul to Candia, a Grecian island in 
the Mediterranean, now under Turkish government; Captain Joseph 
Mountfort, who died some years since in Demarara ; and Mr. Charles 
Mountfort, who died in Boston, November, 1841 ; which five brothers 
were the sons of Mr. Joseph Mountfort, who died in Boston, August 11, 
1838. 

Judge Mountfort was born in Boston, December 19th, 1800, and re- 
ceived the rudiments of his education in the North School, then under 
the tuition of the venerable John Tileston in the writing department, and 
Ezekiel Little in the reading. He was the only scholar that ever received 
two Franklin medals. The first was awarded him in the year 1813, as 
the best scholar in the school of which " Master Little " had charge, and 
the other in the school of " Master Tileston," in the year 1814. At the 
request and earnest solicitation of his teachers, he remained in those 
schools as an assistant teacher in the upper classes for two years without 

pay- 
Judge Mountfort had naturally a martial spirit, as well as a judicial 
mind. While quite a youth he commanded a military company, and 
was one of the originators of that well-drilled corps, the City Guards of 
Boston, of which he was the first honorary member chosen. He was 
commissioned as Adjutant of the First Regiment, and served in that 



114 THE GRANAEY BUEIAL GROUND. 

capacity under four consecutive Colonels, and until he was unanimously 
elected Major of the regiment. 

Judge Mountfort was in early life a merchant, but disliking the 
occupation from having suffered serious losses in business, he removed 
to the city of New York, and commenced the study of the law with Hon. 
Willis Hall, subsequently Attorney-General of the State of New York, 
and was admitted to practice as a counsellor of the Supreme Court. For 
fifteen years he was Clerk and Judge of the Police Court, when he retired 
from the Bench for the more lucrative practice of attorney and coun- 
sellor. 



HENRY MOUNTFORT. 

AGED 54. 
DIED MARCH 29, 1691. 

The above, Henry Mountfort, was brother to Edmund and Benjamin, 
and arrived with the former in the ship Providence, from London, in 1656. 
He was a highly respected ship owner and importing merchant, and 
also possessed much property at the Town Docks, where he built his 
warehouses, as per his inventory at the Suffolk County Probate office. 
He married Kuth Wiswall. His only child, Ebenezer Mountfort, was 
graduated at Harvard College, second in his class, in 1702, and died 
in 1715, and left the entire of his property to his cousin, the well-known 
Doctor Mountfort, who for many years kept at what was called Mount- 
fort's Corner, Boston. 



RUTH CARTER, 

WIFE OF CAPTAIN THOMAS CARTER, 

AGED ABOUT 41, 

DIED JANUARY 26, 1697. 

[NoTE.J She was the widow of the ahove, " Henry Mountfort.* 



MOUNTFORT. 115 



HANNAH WADSWORTH, 

WIFE OF JOSEPH WADSWORTH, 

AGED 31, 

DIED JUNE 16, 1706. 

[Note.] She was the daughter of the first Edmund Mountfort. G. M. 

Jonathan Mountfort, founder of tomb 59, brother of John, was a 
man of liberal education, a physician and apothecary, and resided for 
many years at what was called " Mountfort's Corner." He was inde- 
pendent in his means, and eccentric in his habits. In 1719, he was one 
of the seceders from the New North Church, and among the founders 
and building committee of the " New Brick," or " loeathercock " church, 
for whom he was treasurer. His descendants in the male line are 
extinct' in the female line, they are merged with the Greenough and 
Pitts families. 

The Mountfort family coat of arms, as represented over the tomb of 
Jonathan Mountfort, belonged to Hugo de Montfort, a Norman, who, in 
1066, commanded the cavalry of "William the Conqueror at the Battle 
of Hastings. 

This name is known in the " History of England," during the reigns 
of William I., Henry II., Henry III., John, Edward I., Edward III., 
Edward IV., and Henry VII. It is especially referred to in "Dug- 
dale's History of Warwickshire," a copy of which is in the library of 
Harvard University, which represents the same coat of arms as those 
over the tomb, and gives an elaborate and authentic pedigree of the 
family, from Turstain de Montfort, 1030, father of Hugo, as above 
mentioned, to Simon Mountfort, 1633, father of Edmund, and grand- 
father of John and Jonathan Mountfort, founders of tombs Nos. 7 and 50. 

It is also referred to in " Collins' Peerage," " Burke's Extinct Peer- 
age," " Wiffan's History of the House of Kussell," and other works. 



116 THE GKANARY BURIAL GROUND. 

BENEATH ARE DEPOSITED THE REMAINS OF 

ABIAH HOLBROOK, 

MASTER OF THE SOUTH WRITING SCHOOL, IN BOSTON, 

WHO LIVED BELOVED AND USEFUL 

.FIFTY-ONE YEARS, 

AND DIED REGRETTED AND LAMENTED 

JANUARY 27TH, 1769. 

STILL SPEAKS THE INSTRUCTION FROM THE SOLEMN SHADE, 
YE LIVING LEARN THE LESSONS OF THE DEAD ; 
REPINE NOT THAT THESE DREARY VAULTS CONCLUDE 
A LIFE OF LABOURS FOR THE PUBLICK GOOD. 

CALM SLEEPS THE FLESH ^FAR DISTANT, UNCONFIN'd, 

IN JOYS UNBOUNDED WAKES THE IMMORTAL MIND. 

BENEATH ARE DEPOSITED THE REMAINS OF 

REBECCA HOLBROOK, 

WIDOW OF ABIAH HOLBROOK. 

HER LIFE WAS EXEMPLARY FOR PRUDENCE, PATIENCE, 

AND RESIGNATION 

TO THE DISPENSATIONS OF PROVIDENCE. 

SHE DIED JAN'RY 2D, 1794, AGED 77 YEARS. 



TOMB OF RITCHIE. 



INSCKIPTIONS. 

No. 88. 

THE TOMB OF R. T. PAINE, 

1810. 



117 



HERE LYES YB BODY OF 

MR. JOHN RAND, 

dec'd JUNE YE 4th, 1730, 
IN YE 33d year of 



JOHN, 

SON TO JOHN AND SARY RAND, 

AGED 3 YEARS, 

dec'd JUNE YE 3d, 

1730. 



[Note.] This stone is 73 feet southwest of the Franklin Monument 



No. 87. 
THE TOMB OF O. GOODWIN, 

1810. 



WILLIAM T A YLOR, 

JUNE 19TH, 1788. 

DIED APRIL 17, 1838, 

/ET. 75 YEARS. 



No. 86. 
ADAM BABCOCK'S TOMB, 

1810. 



118 THE GRANARY BURIAL GROUND. 

No. 85. 
STILLMAN BINNEY'S TOMB. 



BENEATH THIS SPOT REPOSES 
THE MORTAL PART OF 

MR. OLIVER W. LANE, JUN'R, 

dea'n of the universalist church in boston, 
OBT. NOV. 3d, 1793, aged 42 years, 

IN WHOM WAS UNITED THE REAL CHRISTIAN, 

THE ACCOMPLISHED GENTLEMAN, AND UNRIVALl'd PRECEPTOR. 

BESIDE THE PARENT SLEEPS HIS SON, 

JOHN MURRY LANE, 

ob't JUNE 20th, 1794, aged 14 months. 

" THE STOCK AND SCION SPRANG FROM THE SAME ROOT, 
ENTWIn'd in HEAVEN THEY BEAR IMMORTAL FRUTT." 



No. 84. 

JOHN ARMITAGE'S TOMB, 

1738. 

BEN J'N JAMES. 

L. PELHAM, 

1790. 



BINNEY TOMB 



BINNEY. 

Tomb No. 85, Granary Burial Ground, Boston, owned by Rev. Dr. 
Stillman and Capt. Barnabas Binney, of Boston, grandfather of Hon. 
Horace Binney, of Philadelphia ; previously it was owned by J. Gibbon. 

* Capt. Barnabas Binney was born in Hull, Massachusetts, March 
22, 1755, son of Deacon John and wife Hannah (Shaw), of Hull, son 
of the first emigrant ancestor of the Binneys in America. 

John, who with his wife Mercy, were among the first settlers of 
Hull, and found there in 1682, supposed to have come from Hull, 
England, or vicinity, or near there in Worksop. The Hull, England, 
families have buried in Worksop some two hundred and fifty years. 

Capt. Barnabas Binney in his will, 1772, is styled " mariner." He 
was also a merchant and trader to Demarara, where he owned planta- 
tions, and where he died previous to 1774. He resided in liberal style 
in Sumner-street, opposite Church Green, seven Star Lane, and where 
he had a store, and left a large estate. He married Avis, daughter of 
Mr. Ings, who married Avis Adams, of Boston. He left three children — 
Avis, married Brown, of Providence, R. I., Dr. Barnabas, and Ann, 
who married Samuel Anthony, of Providence, R. I. 

Dr. Barnabas Binney was senior, and an eminent surgeon in the 
Revolutionary army, afterwards settled in Philadelphia with a success- 
ful practice. Born 1751, graduated at Brown, 1774, married Mary, 

* From a MS. Genealogy of the "Binney family," by C. J. F. Binney. 



120 



THE GRANARY BURIAL GROUND. 



daughter of Henry Woodrow, of New Jersey. He died June 21, 1787. 
His widow in 1791, married the celebrated Dr. Marshall Spring, of 
Watertown, Massachusetts, and died there, aged 37, in 1793, leaving 
one son by that marriage. Her remains and those of her son, John 
Binney, aged 10, were placed in the tomb of Dr. Spring, in Watertown. 
Dr. Binney left four children : 

1. Susan, married John B. Wallace, of Philadelphia. 

2. Hon. Horace Binney, LL.D., born in Philadelphia 1780, gradua- 
ted at Harvard College 1797, Senator in Congress twice, invited to a 
seat in the Supreme Court, Washington, and to a seat in General 
Taylor's Cabinet. His fame as a jurist and most accomplished gentle- 
man is unsurpassed in this country. He resides in Philadelphia, in the 
enjoyment of the result of a successful practice, and surrounded by 
children and grandchildren. The seal which he uses, and which is on 
family plate over a century old, is crest, an ostrich with a key or in its 
beak, shield ar, two bars sa with two scollop shells, on each bar, motto 
" Tiens Foy." 

3. John, died at the age of 10. 

4. Mary, born 1786, married Hon. Lucius Manlius Sargent, of Bos- 
ton, the well-known antiquarian and accomplished gentleman. 

At the north-west corner of the Franklin Monument in the Grranary 
Burial G-round, and near together, are these '■^ grave stones?'' 



HERE LIES BURIED 

THE BODY OF 

CAPT. JOHN BINNEY, 

DIED 

DEC'R 21, 1765, 

/E. 29. 



HERE LIES BURIED 

THE BODY OF 

KATHERINE BINNEY, 

WIFE OF CAPT. JOHN BINNEY, 

/E. 55, WHO DIED 

JULY THE 14TH, 1758. 



HERE LIES BURIED THE BODY OF 

JOHN MINZIES, ESQ., 
/E. 42, DIED DEC'R 3D, 1724. 



BINNEY. 121 

Capt. John Binney, son of , 6 — , died previous to 1758, married 

in Boston, Dee. 31, 1724 (per Brattle-street Church Records), to Kathe- 
rine Minze, by Mr. Benjamin Coleman. 

Judge John Minzee and Eddy Pain were married in Boston, Janu- 
ary 1, 1705. 

Children : 

1. Eddy (or Edith), born Oct. 11, baptized (B. St. Recs.) Oct. 22, 
1727, died single, of dropsy, aged 72, and buried (per Christ Church 
Records) April 27, 1799. By her will it appears she survived all her 
family. 

2. Ivan, born 1730, married Carter, of Boston. 

3. Richard, died, aged 5. 

4. Sarah, born 1734, single, 1774, 

5. John, also Captain,, born 1736, died Dee. 21, aged 29, buried 
Dec. 24, 1765. 

6. Samuel, mentioned in his mother's will, 1758. 

Per Church Records, Edith Binney, single woman, will, Boston, 
March 22, 1799, leaves all her personal property to Rose, a black 
woman, wife of Albany Cushiug, and the use of her house, &c., corner 
of Fish and Sun Court, to her during her life. Her rings and other 
jewelry and the estate after Rose's death, to Rev. Mr. Walter, rector 
of Christ Church. 

[Note.] On the Brattle-street Church Records are the baptisms of "Catharine, 
1 week, Feb. 17, 1706, dau'ter of Eddy Minze, & Eddy, April 4, 1708 ; Anna, 
May 18, 1712 ; John, Mar. 21, 1714 ; Thomas (in private), Sept. 23, 1719 ; Samuel, 
Aug. 5, 1722, also, Katherine Minze, admitted Dec'r 3d, 1721 ; Edith, March 6, 1720, 
married Judge Minze, from Scotland, Nov. 14, 1716. John Mynze, Esq., and Mrs. 
Katherine Lake, married March 25, 1717." 

This latter marriage and the births of John Binney's children, except Samuel, are 
on the Boston Records also. 

Katherine Binney's will 1758, mentions among other property left her brothers 
and sisters, a negro woman, March 2 1774, ROSE, a negro servant of Edith and Sarah 
Binney's, was baptized. C. J. F. B. 

BosUm, Auffust 30, 1855. 



122 THE GRANAKY BURIAL GROUND. 

Edith Binney survived all her family, which probably came from 
Scotland or England, as no connection has been found between the Hull, 
Massachusetts, branch, and this family. [For a more particular account 
of the family, vide Bridgman's " Memorials of Copp's Hill," page 164, 
" King's Chapel Memorials," pages 73 and from 216 to 220.] 



INSCRIPTIONS. 123 

MOSES BASS. 

IN THIS TOMB REPOSE THE REMAINS OF 

DR. HORACE BEAN 

WHO WAS FOR TWENTY-FOUR YEARS A PRACTISING PHYSICIAN 

IN BOSTON. 

WAS A GRADUATE OF HARVARD UNIVERSITY 

IN THE CLASS OF 1800. 

HE WAS BORN IN WRENTHAM, MASS., 

SEPTEMBER 4, 1770. 

HIS FATHER WAS THE REV. JOSEPH BEAN, 

THE FIRST MINISTER OF WRENTHAM, 

(he GRADUATED AT HARVARD IN 1748.) 

AND OF 

ELIZABETH MESSENGER 

HIS WIFE, 

(who was also a daughter OF A MINISTER.) 

HE WAS A FRIEND TO THE FRIENDLESS, AND A CONSTANT 

benefactor TO THE POOR. 

HIS MEMORY STILL LIVES IN MANY HEARTS 

HE HAS BLEST, 

AND IS A PRECIOUS LEGACY TO HIS CHILDREN. 



124 THE GRANARY BURIAL GROUND. 

HERE ARE ENTOMBED 
ALL THAT WAS MORTAL 
OF 

MRS. MARY BEAN, 

WIFE OF 

REV. JOSEPH BEAN, 

FIRST MINISTER OF WRENTHAM, MASS. 

BORN MAY 21, 1779, 

MARRIED 1806, 

DIED JUNE 14, 1852. 

SHE WAS DAUGHTER OF MR. GILLAM BASS, 

OF BOSTON, 

AND GRANDDAUGHTER OF MR. MOSES BASS. 

SHE WAS A GOOD AND DEVOTED MOTHER, 

AND HER MEMORY 

IS EMBALMED IN THE HEARTS OF HER CHILDREN. 

"the good AND THE TRUE 

NEVER DIE, NEVER DIE, 
THOUGH GONE, THEY ARE HERE, 
EVER NIGH, EVER NIGH." 



INSCEIPTIONS. 125 

HERE LIES BURIED THE BODY OF 

MR. JOHN HOOTON, 

WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE JUNE 24tH, 1760, 
AGED 71 YEARS. 
[Opposite this is the footstoiie of Mrs. SARAH HOOTON.] 

[By side of preceding.] 

HERE LIES BURIED THE BODY OP 

MRS. SARAH HOOTON, 

WIFE TO MR. JOHN HOOTON, 
WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE FEB. YE 24tH, 17 * *. 

JOHN, 

SON OF JOHN AND SARAH HOOTOK, 
AGED 1 YEAR AND 3 MO. DIED AUGUST YE 29tH, 1721. 

IN MEMORY OF 

MRS. JOAN BURT, 

WIFE OF MR. BENJAMIN BURT, 
AND DAu'r of MR. JOHN AND MRS. SARAH HOOTON, 

DIED oct'r 31st, 1785, aged 54 years. 

[Footstone, 1785, MRS. JOAN BURT.] 
[Footstone of MR. RICHARD HOOTON.] 



BASS. 

John Bass, of Braintree, married Ruth, daughter of John Alden 
of Plymouth, April 12, 1657, and had children — John, born November 
26, 1658 ; Samuel, born March 25, 1660 ; E,uth, Joseph, Sarah, and 
perhaps others ; Joseph of Braintree, 1648 ; Samuel, Braintree freeman, 
1634, the first deacon of the church, and in office more than fifty years, 
was representative 1641 twelve years, died December 3, 1694, aged 94, 
having seen one hundred and sixty-two descendants ; Ann, his wife, died 
September 5, 1693. Samuel, of Massachusetts, was admitted freeman 
1656. William, of Massachusetts, freeman, 1638. 

Edward Bass, bishop of the Episcopal Church in Massachusetts, was 
born at Dorchester, November 23, 1726, and was graduated in 1744. 
In 1752, he was invited to settle over the Episcopal church in Newbury, 
and was ordained by that great man, Dr. Sherlock, then Bishop of 
London. 

During the Revolutionary war, when most of the Episcopal churches 
were left destitute, he continued to preach, and, by his prudence, mild- 
ness, peaceable and inoffensive behavior, he gained the esteem and afiec- 
tion of people who were very different in their politics. 

In July, 1789, he received a diploma of doctor of divinity from the 
university of Philadelphia. 

In 1796, he was elected unanimously to the office of Bishop of 
Massachusetts. 

He was consecrated in Christ Church, May 7th, 1797, by the bishop 
of the Episcopal churches in Pennsylvania, Maryland, and New York. 



BASS. 127 

He was also elected bishop of the Episcopal churches in Rhode Island 
and New Hampshire. 

Bishop Bass was a sound divine, a critical scholar, an accomplished 
gentleman, an exemplary Christian. On the 10th of September, 1803, 
after an illness of two days, he died as he had lived, full of piety, resig- 
nation, and humility. 



SEWALL. 

The following note was kindly furnished by Rev. Samuel Sewall, 
D. D., who has long been preparing an extended account of the Sewall 
family. 

Burlington, Mass., September 21st, 1853. 

Thomas Bridgman, Esq. 

Dear Sir : — Yours of the 10th inst. was duly received, and I now 
embrace the earliest convenient opportunity I have had, to furnish you 
with the desired " article " concerning the Sewall family, and the tomb 
in the Granary Burying G-round, Boston, which bears their name. 

All the Sewalls now known to be in New England and Lower Canada, 
are descended from Mr. Henry Sewall, a linen-draper, of Coventry, 
Warwickshire, England, who acquired a large estate by industry and 
prudence, and was chosen Mayor of that city for 1606, and one or more 
other years. 

Mr. Henry Sewall, a grandson of the above Henry, came to this 
country 1634, assisted in the settlement of Newbury, Mass., 1635, mar- 
ried Jane, daughter of Mr. Stephen and Mrs. Alice Dummer of that town 
March 25, 1646 ; returned to England with his father and mother Dum- 
mer the following winter, and after a temporary residence with his family 
in his jiative country, came back to New England 1659, took up his resi- 
dence again at Newbury, and there died. May 16, 1670, at 86, having the 
character of a true Nathaniel given him by his minister. Rev. Mr. Top- 
pan, in a sermon preached shortly after his death. His wife died Janu- 



SEWALL. 129 

ary 13, 1700, set. 74, and a grave-stone erected to their memory in the 
old burying ground at Newbury, still remains. Descendants of the five 
daughters of this worthy couple are numerous in Newbury, Rowley and 
vicinity, and from their three sons, Samuel, John, and Stephen, great 
numbers have arisen to bear up their names in Boston, Salem, Newbury, 
and Marblehead, Mass., at Portsmouth, N. H., at Quebec and Montreal, 
Lower Canada, and throughout the State of Maine. Two original letters 
of theirs to their son Samuel, one written by the father in 1671, the 
other by the mother about 1699, are preserved with care by the writer 
of this article, both as precious relies of the founder of his family in 
England, and as monuments of their parental love. 

Chief Justice Samuel Sewall, of Boston, from whom the " Sewall 
Tomb," in the Grranai-y Burying Ground in that city, derives its name, 
was the eldest son of Henry and Jane Sewall of Newbury. He was born 
at Bishop Stoke, Hampshire County, England, March 28, 1652; came 
with his mother to this country in 1661, was graduated at Harvard Col- 
lege (of which he was some time a Fellow, or Tutor), 1671, and married 
28th February, 1675-6, Hannah, daughter and only heir of Hon. John 
Hull, Esq., of Boston, Master of the Mint, who coined the celebrated 
New England shillings ; Treasurer of the colony for 1676, and subse- 
quently a member of the Board of Assistants. Mr. Sewall after serving 
his country faithfully in the Council of the Province thirty-three years 
in succession, and as a Judge in the principal Court of Judicature under 
the Colonial and Provincial Governments upwards of forty years, of 
which ten as Chief Justice, died January 1st, 1729-30, aet. 78. At the 
Boston Thursday Lecture, January 8th, the day after his funeral. Rev. Mr. 
Prince, of the Old South Church, preached a sermon in reference to his 
death, from 1st Samuel vii. 15-17, (" And Samuel judged Israel all the 
days of his life," &c. &c.) in which he gave him a very high character for 
learning, piety, and humility ; for justice, beneficence, and compassion. 

The Tomb in the Granary Burying Ground, Boston, known by his 
name, was built by his father-in-law, Hon. John Hull, Esq., who was 
buried therein, October 5, 1683. According to a list prepared by 
Samuel Sewall, Esq., of Brookline, eldest son of the Chief Justice, No- 



130 THE GRANARY BURIAL GROUND. 

vember 9, 1737, there had been deposited ia that tomb the bodies of 33 
persons, viz. : John Hull, Esq., and Mrs. Judith Hull his wife, a sister 
of Col. Edmund Quincy, of Braintree, Mr. Daniel Quincy of Boston, a 
son of Col. Quincy by his first wife, and father of Hon. John Quincy, 
Esq., of Braintree, Speaker of the House for many years, who was great- 
grandfather of the late John Quincy Adams, President of the United 
States ; Bev. Joshua Moodey, first Pastor of the Church at Portsmouth, 
N. H., and sometime assistant minister of first Church, Boston ; Chief 
Justice Sewall and his first two wives, twenty-five of his children and 
grandchildren (including Mrs. Elizabeth Hirst his eldest daughter, 
Grove Hirst, Esq., Merchant, her husband, and their daughter Mrs. Eliza- 
beth, first wife of Rev. Charles Chauncey, D. D.,) and Miss Ann Pierce, 
probably a cousin from Newbury, who had died in Boston. To these 
were doubtless added between then and the Revolution, Rev. William 
Cooper of Brattle-street Church, who had buried three of their children 
there before 1737, and Judith his wife, youngest daughter of Judge 
Sewall, Rev. Dr. Joseph Sewall, son of the Judge and Pastor of the Old 
South Church, and Elizabeth his wife, a daughter of Hon. Judge Walley, 
land their only surviving son, Samuel Sewall, Esq., of Boston, Merchant, 
and Deacon of the Old South Church, and Elizabeth his wife, daughter 
of Edmund Quincy, Esq., of Braintree and Boston, and a son of theirs 
Joseph Sewall, who died in childhood, 1752, making 40 persons in all, 

who were buried in the Sewall Tomb, in the Granary Burying Ground, 

Boston, previous to the Revolution. 

The above Samuel Sewall, Esq., of Boston, who died in January 

1771, and Elizabeth his wife, who died in February, 1770, left seven 

children* viz. : 

Elizabeth, wife of Samuel Salisbury, Deacon of the Old South 

Church, Boston. 

Hannah, wife of Mr. James Hill, Boston. 

Sarah, who died 1780, at Cambridge, and was buried there in the 

tomb of Rev. Dr. Wigglesworth. 

Samuel, the late Chief Justice, my honored father, who resided at 

Marblehead. 



SEWALL 131 

Dorothy, wife of Capt. Joseph May, of Boston. 

Katharine, wife of Henry Gallison, Esq., of Marblehead. 

Joseph, of Boston, Merchant, and some time Treasurer of the Com- 
monwealth. 

Of these Mrs. Salisbury was buried at her decease in 1789, in the 
family tomb in the Granary Burying Ground, but was afterwards trans- 
ferred to a tomb purchased by her consort, in the Chapel Burying 
Ground. The rest having changed their place of residence, or being 
provided with other places of sepulture, at the time of their decease, the 
old tomb in the Granary, on the part of this branch of the Sewall family, 
became virtually abandoned. 

Within the last forty or fifty years, this tomb was taken possession 
of by Capt. Philip Ridgway, of Boston, who had married a descendant 
of Samuel Sewall, Esq., of Brookline, the eldest son of the Chief Justice. 
This gentleman repaired it, and may not improbably have buried some 
of his dead there, but he still caused the inscription of " Tomb of Hon. 
Judge Sewall," (or words equivalent to these) to be engraved on the 
top. And now, within a few years, Ralph Huntington, Esq., of Boston, 
who married a connection of the Sewall family, as I have heard, obtained 
the consent of the late Joseph Sewall, Esq., of Boston, above named, to 
use the Sewall Tomb in the Granary Burying Ground as his own, on 
condition, it is understood, that the remains heretofore deposited there, 
should not be removed. Much precious dust lies buried in that tomb. 
May it never be disturbed till at the last trump Christ shall awake the 
sleeping bodies of his saints, and raise them to life and glory above ! 

The arms of the Sewall family in New England are " Sable Cheve- 
ron betwixt three Gad Bees argent," and these are the very same as are 
inscribed by Fuller, in his Worthies of England, to " John Sewall, 
Sheriff of Essex and Hertfordshire, 4 Rich. II. 1380." 

The copy I send you was given me some years since by a kinsman, 
Rev. Jotham Sewall, of Chesterville, the venerable missionary of Maine, 
now deceased ; who also once told me, I am confident, that the motto to 
our arms was, " Vivere est agere." This motto suits very well with the 
" Gad Bees ; " but it is not in a display of these arms accompanying a 



132 THE GRANAEY BURIAL GROUND. 

portrait I have of the Kev. Dr. Sewall of the Old South Church, Boston, 
taken in 1768 ; nor in any other that I have ever seen. The copy of 
arms enclosed, I must request you, Dear Sir, to return to me when you 
have done with it, as I am very choice of it. I shall keep for you the 
specimen of arms you sent me, as you request, with thanks for your 
kindness in sending them. 

For all the information I can give you respecting the ministers of 
Groton, I must refer you to the " American Quarterly Kegister." In 
the four numbers of Vol. XI. of that work, I published in 1838 and 1839, 
an account of all the Congregational Churches in the county of Middle- 
sex, and of their respective ministers from the beginning. To obtain 
information respecting the Church of Groton, I visited the place in 1834 
or 1835, examined Town and Church Records, the records of the separa- 
tion that had there taken place, went into the old graveyard, &e. &c. 
The result of my labors respecting Groton you will find in the 3d Num- 
ber of that volume, page 249, &c. &c. 

Yours respectfully, 

Samuel Sewall. 



INSCRIPTIONS. 133 

HERE LYES YE BODY OF 

MARY COLSON, 

DAU'R TO DAVID AND HANNAH COLSON, 

AGED 14 YEARS AND 11 MO. 

DIED OCT. YE 14TH, 1721. 



JOHN BODMAN, 

SON OF MR. WILLIAM AND MRS. CATHERINE BODMAN, 



* * * * 



HERE LYES BURIED THE BODY OP 

MRS. DOROTHY TREADWAY, 

AGED 79 YEARS, 
DIED MARCH YE 9tH, 1740. 



HERE LYES YE BODY OF 

MR. FRANCIS PETTIT, 

AGED 32 YEARS & 5 DAYS, DEPARTED THIS LIFE, 
JULY YE 9th, 1721. 



134 THE GKANAEY BURIAL GROUND. 

HERE LYES YE BODY OF 

lOHN HILLS, 

AGED ABOUT 26 YEARS, DIED NOUEMBER 21, 1690, 



IN MEMORY OF 



JAMES OTIS, 

WHO DIED JULY 7tH, 1783, AGED 2 YEARS AND 6 MONTHS. 



HERE LYES YE BODY OP 

BARNABAS LEW IS, 

SON TO MR. JAMES AND MRS. ELIz'tH LEWIS, 
DEo'd APRIL YE 12, 1729, 

IN YE 23d year of his age. 



SEYRE DAILLE. 



HERE LYES YE BOOY OF 

JOANNA W ALTERS, 

WIFE TO WILLIAM WALTERI 
AGED 25 YEARS, 
DEc'd SEPT. YE 8th, 1717. 



INSCRIPTIONS. 135 

HERE LYES THE BODY OF 

MR. JOHN KILBY, 

aged 54 years and 4 mo. 

dec'd may ye 2 9th, 17 2 2. 



HERE LYES THE BODY OF 

MR. RICHARD KILBY, 

AGED 40 YEARS, 
dec'd DECEMBER YE 4tH, 1736. 



HERE LYES YE BODY OF 

RACHEL INCHES, 

WIFE TO THOMAS INCHES, 
AGED 26 YEARS & 1 MO. DIED SEPt'r YE 24, 1719. 



HERE LYES BURIED THE BODY OP 

MRS. HANNAH TUCKERMAN, 

WHO DIED JUNE 13tH, 1757, 

JE. 36. 



RUTH CUTLER. 



HERE LIES THE BODY OF 

CAPT. TIMOTHY PARKER, 

OF FALMOUTH, IN THE COUNTY OF BARNSTABLE, 

WHO DIED OF THE SMALL-POX, 

AUGUST 8TH, 1762, 

IN THE 36TH YEAR OF HIS AGE. 



PARKER. 

Thomas Parker, first of Lynn, came in the Susan and Ellen from 
London, 1635, aged 30, fellow passenger with young Richard Salton- 
stall, and his wife and child; was freeman 17th May, 1637, removed 
soon after to Reading, perhaps on his marriage, had Hananiah, born 
1638 ; Thomas ; Joseph, 1642, died soon ; Joseph again 24th December, 
1645, died at four months old ; Mary, 11th March, but another docu- 
ment says 12th December, 1647 ; Martha, 14th March, 1649 ; Nathaniel, 
16th May, 1651; Sarah, 30th September, 1653, probably died young; 
Jonathan, 10th May, 1656 ; and Sarah, again, 23d May, 1658 ; beside 
John, of uncertain date. He was one of the founders of the church at 
Reading, and deacon to his death, many years, in 1683. In his will, of 
3d April, in that year, proved 18th December following, he provided for 
his wife Amy, sons John, Thomas, and Nathaniel, daughters Mary, and 
Martha, beside grandchildren Samuel, and Sarah, and made son Hana- 
niah executor. His widow died 15th January, 1690. 

Hananiah, of Reading, son, perhaps the eldest, of Thomas Parker, 



FARKER. 137 

married 30th September, 1663, Elizabeth, daughter of Jonathan Brown; 
had John, born 3d August, 1664 ; Samuel, 24th October, 1666 ; Eliza- 
beth, June, 1668 ; Sarah, 20th February, 1672, and died next year ; 
Hananiah, 2d November, 1674, died in a few months ; Ebenezer, 13th 
February, 1676; Hananiah, again, 30th April, 1681, died in a few 
months; and Mary. His wife died 27th February, 1698; and he 
married 12th December, 1700, Mary, widow of Deacon John Bright, 
who outlived him, and he died 10th March, 1724, aged 85. 

John, of Reading, brother of Hananiah, married 13th November, 
1667, Hannah, probably daughter of Thomas Kendall; had John, born 
16th December, 1668 ; Thomas, 9th November, 1670 ; Hannah, 25th 
February, 1672 ; Rebecca, 18th February, 1675 ; Kendall, 15th Novem- 
ber, 1677 ; Abigail, 10th October, 1679, died in a few weeks ; Jonathan, 
18th July, 1681 ; Daniel, 30th October, 1686 ; and Abigail, again, 24th 
December, 1688, died at six months old. His wife died 8th July, 1689, 
and by his second wife. Thankful, married 28th January, following, he 
had Hannah, again, 28th January, 1691 ; Rebecca, again, 13th Feb- 
ruary, 1693; Thomas, again, 17th March, 1695; and Elizabeth, 27th 
March, 1698. Thomas, Hannah, and Rebecca, children of the first 
wife, had died shortly before their mother, and all within three days. 
He died 21st February, 1699. 

Nathaniel, of Reading, brother of Hananiah, by wife Bethia, had 
Bethia, born 23d July, 1678, died in a few weeks ; Nathaniel, 4th De- 
cember, 1679 ; Stephen, 14th Jime, 1684, died in a few months ; Bethia, 
again, 6th September, 1685 ; Susanna, 29th December, 1687 ; Ebenezer, 
28th December, 1689 ; Stephen, again, 21st April, 1692 ; Caleb, 22d 
February, 1694 ; Timothy, 24th February, 1696 ; Obadiah, 13th Janu- 
ary, 1698; Abigail, 25th September, 1699; Amy, 1st January, 1701, 
died soon ; Amy, again, 8th November, 1702 ; and Phineas, 27th Sep- 
tember, 1704. His wife died 23d August, 1748, in her 90th year. 

John, of Reading, son of Hananiah, by wife Deliverance, had Han- 
aniah, born 10th October, 1691, who died at Port Royal, on service in 
Queen's Ann's war, 1711 ; Andrew, 14th February, 1693 ; Josiah, 11th 
April, 1694 ; Mary, 4th December, 1695, died at 14 years ; a son bom 



138 THE GRANARY BURIAL GROUND. 

19th August, 1697, who died at 12 years; and Johu, 8th November, 
1703. Late in life he was of Lexington, where his wife died 10th 
March, 1718, and he died 12th January, 1741. 



THIS STONE ERECTED BY 

MR. ABEL PARKER, MR. JOSIAH HOLDEN, 

AND 

MR. NATHANIEL LAKIN. 

ALSO, 

MR. JOHN BLOOD AND MR. ISAAC WOODS, 

TO THE MEMORY OF 
MR. JOSEPH PARKER, 

WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE NOV'R 26TH, 1753, ■ 
AGED 64 YEARS, 8 MONTHS, AND 26 DAYS. 
AND BY 

MR. JOSIAH PARKER. 

" dear friends, for me pray do not weep, 
" i am not dead but here do sleep, 
"within this solid lump of clay, 

" UNTIL THE resurrection DAY. 

" AND HERE, INDEED, I MUST REMAIN, 

"till CHRIST SHALL RAISE ME UP AGAIN." 

[Note.] In June, 1852, at the request of that excelleut man, the late Hon. Amos 
Lawrence, we visited his native town of Groton, Mass., and, among other monuments, 
found one hearing the above inscription. It is a large monument, and was covered 
with moss, but the letters were cut deep, and it is now quite legible. — Ed. 



PAEKER. 139 

The Parker Family were among the most numerous, and held a 
place of the first respectability with the most influential and useful of 
all the families of Old Grroton. James and Joseph Parker were jjroba- 
bly brothers, and are found among the original proprietors of the town. 
In the town records, the following names are found as children of 
Joseph Parker : 

Sarah, born Nov. 16, 1666, died Sept. 15, 1704. 

Elizabeth, born Aug. 31, 1679. 

Simon, born Aug. 27, 1687. 

Joseph, born March 1, 1689. 

Benjamin, born Dec. 3, 1691. 

John, born Aug. 26, 1695. 

James Parker was one of the most distinguished men of his time, 
occupying a commanding position as a public man in every place where 
he resided, and was revered for the sterling excellencies of his character 
by bis contemporaries. His name holds a conspicuous place in the 
records of Dunstable, Chelmsford, Bilerica, and "VVoburn. He became 
an early settler of Groton, and was probably one of the petitioners for 
the grant of the town, and was elected as a member of the first board 
of Selectmen in December, 1662. To this office he was elected in 
nearly all the successive years from 1662 to 1699, during which period 
he was Moderator of nearly all the town meetings, Chairman of all im- 
portant committees, and appointed to transact all important business of 
a municipal, parochial, or public nature. 

As an indication of the estimation in which he was held by the 
public generally, he was elected a Selectman of Dunstable even after 
he became an inhabitant of Grroton. Not only was he thus honored in 
the general afi'airs of society, but his standing as a member of the 
church is also indicated by his being appointed to the office of Deacon, 
the duties of which he faithfully and efficiently discharged. He was 
also early made a military Captain, and was a very skilful and brave 
officer in the Indian wars. No name is oftener mentioned in the scenes 
and events connected with the difficulties in the early settlement of our 
country, than that of Captain James Parker. In addition to his other 



140 THE GRAXARY BURIAL GROUND, 

arduous and useful offices, he was sometime Town Clerk of Groton, 
and in the year 1693 he was chosen a representative of the town to the 
General Court. 

His residence was on the principal street near the centre of the 
town, on the south side of a little stream which bears his name, and he 
became one of the most extensive owners of real estate in the place. 
In 1643, he was married to Elizabeth Long, of Woburn, by whom he 
had eleven children. He married again in advanced life widow Eunice 

-, by whom he had a daughter. The names of all his children are 

as follows : 

1. Elizabeth, born April 12, 1645. 

2. Ann, born Nov. 5, 1646. 

3. Hannah, born Jan. 5, . 

4. John, born Feb. 28, 1649. 

5. Joseph, born 1651. 

6. James, born . 

7. Josiah, born 1655. 

8. Samuel, born . 

9 Joshua, born March 13, 1658. 

10. Zachariah, born Jan. 14, 1659. 

11. Eleazer, born Nov. 9, 1660. 

12. Sarah (by second wife), born Dec. 12, 1697. 

It is highly probable that the many hundreds of this name who are 
found not only on the records of Groton, but also of Shirley and Pep- 
perell, are all descendants of these two brothers, Capt. James Parker 
and Joseph Parker. 

Hon. Leonard M. Parker, of Shirley, and his brothers and sisters, 
are descendants, in the Sixth generation, from James, through 
James Jr., Phineas Leonard, and James. In a brief notice like this, 
it is impossible to give a full and perfect view of such a character and 
history as that of Capt. James Parker. Few men have as full and 
faithfully discharged all the duties of a long life, and in so many im- 
portant spheres. He added to his high mental endowments strict moral 
integrity. In the fear and love of God, he followed the path of duty 



141 



wherever it led, only asking, " Is it right ? Is it the will of God ? Will 
it benefit my fallen fellow creatures?" Of very few can it be said, as 
to the circumstances in which they are called to act, more truly than of 
him, — he was the good presiding genius in the scenes through which he 
moved, and his name and memory is a crown of honor and glory to his 
numerous descendants. 



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142 THE GRANARY BURIAL GROUND. 

Levi Parker, of Cambridge, son of Levi Parker, born Jan. 9, 1778, 
married Sept. 22, 1803, at Westford, to Betsey, eldest daughter of 
Samuel Wright, and had the following children : 

1. Martha Elizabeth, born at Groton, Aug. 20, 1805. 

2. William Henry, born at Groton, April 16, 1811. 

3. Anna Wright, born at Westford, April 6, 1813. 

4. Luther Lawrence, born at Westford, Oct. 31, . 

Martha Elizabeth married Edmund Boynton, of Cambridge, July 
28, 1836 ; had one son, Henry, born May 20, 1838, died Oct. 24, 1845. 

William Henry married Mary West Hayden, daughter of Ezekiel 
Hayden, of Cambridge, May 18, 1843 ; has two children, William Levi, 
born March 26, 1844, Henry Boynton, born March 5, 1846. 

Anna Wright married Dr. Ansen Hooker, of Cambridge, Feb. 5, 
1852 ; had one child, Lizzie Ann, born Jan. 22, 1853, died Jan. 24, 
1853; 

Luther Lawrence married Harriet, eldest daughter of Caleb G. 
Loring, of Boston, May 6, 1846, and had one son, Luther Lawrence, 
born March 26, 1848. His wife died at East Cambridge, Aug. 26, 
1851, aged 28 years and 2 months. 

Thomas Parker, first minister of Newbury, Mass., the only son of 
Robert Parker, who was driven out of England for Puritanism in the 
reign of Elizabeth, was born in 1595. After having been for some time 
a student at Oxford, he pursued his studies in Ireland under Dr. Usher. 
Thence he went to Holland, where he enjoyed the assistance of Dr. 
Ames. He returned to Newbury, England, where he preached, and was 
the instructor of a school. He came to this country with a number of 
Christian friends in May, 1634, and immediately went to Agawam, or 
Ipswich, Mass., where he continued about a year as an assistant to Mr. 
Ward. In 1635, he commenced the settlement of Newbury, and was 
chosen pastor, and Mr. Noyes teacher. He died in April, 1677, aged 
81, leaving behind him the character of an eminent scholar and of a 
most pious and benevolent Christian. 

Through his incessant application, he became blind several years 
before his death. Under this heavy calamity he was patient and cheer- 



PARKEK. 143 

ful, and used to say in reference to his darkened eyes, " they will he 
restored shortly in the resurrection." 

Having never been married, he yet, with parental affection, gave 
several young gentlemen the advantages of a public education. In his 
views of church government, he was inclined to presbyterianism. Some 
" Theses de traductione peccatoris ad vitam," written by him at an early 
age, were printed with some works of Dr. Ames. He also published a 
letter to a member of the Westminster Assembly, on the government in 
the churches of England, 1644 ; the prophecies of Daniel expounded, 4to., 
1646 ; a letter to his sister, Mrs. Avery, on her opinions, 1649. Mag- 
nalia, III., 143, 145, 147. 

Samuel Parker, D.D., Bishop of Massachusetts, was born at 'Ports- 
mouth, N. H., in 1745, and graduated at Harvard College in 1764. He 
was afterwards nine years an instructor of youth in Newburyport, and 
other towns. In 1773, he was ordained by the Bishop of London, and 
May 19, 1774, was established as an assistant minister at Trinity Church, 
Boston, of which he became the rector in 1779. During the Revolu- 
tionary war the other Episcopal clergymen quitted the country, but he 
remained at his post, and his church was saved from dispersion. After 
the death of Bishop Bass, he was elected his successor ; but he was at 
the head of the Episcopal churches but a few months. He died sud- 
denly at Boston, Dec. 6, 1804, aged 59. Distinguished for his benev- 
olence, he was in a peculiar manner the friend of the poor, who in his 
death mourned the loss of a father. He published a sermon at the 
election, 1793 ; before the asylum, 1803 ; and some other occasional 
discourses. 

Isaac Parker, LL.D., Chief Justice of Massachusetts, was born 
in Boston, in 1768, and graduated at Harvard College in 1786. He 
commenced the practice of law in the district of Maine, and was elected 
a member of Congress. In 1806, he was appointed a Judge of the Su- 
preme Court, and in 1814, Chief Justice, as the successor of Mr. Sewall, 
of which office he, with kigh reputation and faithfulness, discharged the 
duties sixteen years. On Sunday, May 25, 1830, he was suddenly 
attacked with the apoplexy, of which he died the next morning, May 26, 



144 THE GRANARY BURIAL GROUND. 

aged 62. His successor is Lemuel Shaw. He was a distinguished 
scholar and friend of literature. For eleven years he was a trustee of 
Bowdoin College, and for twenty years an overseer of Harvard College. 
He was a man of great moral worth, and a firm believer in the Christian 
religion. He published a sketch of the character of Judge Parsons, 
1813. 



INSCRIPTIONS. 145 

THE TOMB OF JAMES HUTCHINSON. 



No. 36. 
NANCY MCCLINCH TOMB. 



HERE LIES BURIED THE BODY OF 

MRS. MARY CUNINGHAM, 

WIDOW OF MR. ANDREW CUNINGHAM, 

DEC'D JULY 14TH,1774, AGED 85. 

HERE LIES BURIED THE BODY OF 

MR. ANDREW CUNINGHAM, 

WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE 

APRIL 27TH, 1752, IN THE 60TH YEAR OF HIS AGE. 



ELISABETH TORREY'S TOMB, 
1815. 



No. 2. 

CAPT. JOHN GERE, 

1772. 



10 



146 THE GKANARY BTJRIAL GROUND. 

HERE LIES BURIED THE BODY OF 

DEACON HENRY HILL, 

DIED JULY 8, 1726, 

AGED 70 YEARS. 

THIS TOMB WAS ERECTED BY HIS SONS JOHN AND THOMAS HILL. 



BENEATH THIS TURF 
REPOSE THE REMAINS OF 

CHARLES WILLIAM TUTTLE, 

WHO DIED SEPTEMBER 8tH, 1846, 
AGED 18 YEARS 

ALSO, 

MARY ABBY TUTTLE, 

AGED 11 YEARS, 

WHO DIED DEC. 7, 1847. 

CHILDREN OF MR. HUGH H. TUTTLE. 



HERE LYES YE BODY OF 

MR. JAMES KING, 

AGED 36 YEARS, DEc'd OCT. YE 4tH, 1734. 



INSCEIPTIONS. 147 

HERE LYETH BURIED YE BOBY OP 

GEORGE MASON, ESQ. 

aged 36 years, 
dec'd ye 25th of September, 1684. 

HERE lyes buried THE BODY OF 

MRS, MARY MASON, 

WIFE TO ARTHUR MASON, 

AGED 67 YEARS, 

WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE SEPt'r YE 19, 1745. 

MEMENTO MORI FUGIT HORI. 

HERE LYES INTERED YE BODY OF 

MRS. JOHANNAH MASON 

LATE WIFE TO MR. ARTHUR MASON, 

WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE, 

JANUARY YE 2d, 1704-5, IN YE 70tH YEAR OF HER AGE. 

HERE LYES BURIED THE BODY OF 

MR, DAVID MASON, 

AGED 43 YEARS, WHO DIED JULY YE 19, 1746. 
HERE LYES BURIED YE BODY OF 

MR. ARTHUR MASON, 

AGED ABOUT 78 YEARS, DEPARTED THIS LIFE 
MARCH YE 4th, 1778, 

ARTHUR, 

S * * TO MR. DAVID AND MRS. SUSANNAH MASON, 
AGED 5 MONTHS & 19 DS. 



MASON. 

Arthur Mason, of Boston, was a constable. Twenty-four of the name 
had graduated at the N. E. Colleges in 1826. Edmund, was a propri- 
etor in Watertown, in 1642. Henry was freeman in Massachusetts in 
1650. Henry of Scituate, 1650. Hugh, freeman of Watertown, 1635, 
representative 1644 and 1645, 1660, 1661, 1664, 1672, 1674, to 1677. 
Was a captain of the militia, and died Oct. 10th, 1678. His wife died 
May 21, 1692. They had children, viz. : Hannah, born Sept. 23, 16, 
1636. She married Captain Joshua Brooks of Concord. Mary, who 
married Rev. Joseph Estabrook. John, born Jan. 1, 1644, married 
Hannah Ramsden and settled in Concord. Joseph, born Aug. 10, 1646, 
died July 22, 1702. Daniel, born Feb. 19, 1649, graduated at H. C. in 
1666, and Sarah, born Sept. 25, 1651. John, the distinguished Pequot 
warrior, came early to New England, and settled at Dorchester, which 
he represented in 1635 and "'36, having been admitted freeman in 1635. 
He removed with Mr. Wareham to Windsor, in 1636, was elected a 
magistrate from 1642 to 1659 ; removed to Saybrook, 1647 ; to 
Norwich in 1659 ; was elected Deputy-governor in 1660, and the 
nine succeeding years; was Major-general, and died at Norwich in 
1672 or 3, aet. 72. He left three sons, Samuel, John, and Daniel, 
whose posterity have ever remained in Connecticut, and are spread over 
the country. Jeremiah Mason, LL. D., was a descendant. John, the 
proprietor of New Hampshire, towards the settlement of which he ex- 
pended a considerable estate. He died in England Nov. 26, 1637, 
having never come to New England. His only child, Jane, married 
John Tufton, Esq., and had John, who died without issue, and Robert, 



MASON. 149 

who took the name of Mason. Kobert, grandson of the preceding, was 
declared proprietor of New Hampshire, by Charles II., 1677, and by a 
mandamus in 1680. He was a counsellor in 1682, at which time he 
resided in Portsmouth. He was named as one of Sir Edmund Andros's 
council, but died in 1686, leaving two sons, John Tufton Mason, who 
died in Virginia without issue ; and Robert Tufton Mason, who married 
Catherine Wiggin, and was lost at sea in 1G96, leaving two children ; 
John Tufton, who died at Havana, in 1718, and Elizabeth, who was 
living in 1738. The last John Tufton Mason had two sons, John Tuf- 
ton and Thomas Tufton. Eobert of Roxbury in 1637, his wife died that 
year. Ralph of Boston, 1637, Zuriel, (?) born 1637, John, born 1640, 
Jacob, born 1644. Samuel, of Connecticut, son of Major-general John 
Mason, was elected an assistant in 1683. Stephen, of Massachusetts, 
was one of the first councillors under the charter of William and Mary, 
1692. 

Hon. Jonathan Mason died in 1831, leaving a numerous family, who 
are among our most estimable and respected citizens. Of his two sons, 
Jonathan and William P., the latter was for several years reporter of 
the decisions of Judge Story, though he has now retired from the pro- 
fession. Of Mr. Mason's daughters, one is wife of Hon. David Sears ; 
one is widow of the late Patrick Grant ; one was wife of Samuel D. 
Parker, the distinguished criminal lawyer ; one was first wife of Dr. John 
C. Warren, and the mother of his equally distinguished son, J. Mason 
Warren ; and one is the mother of the late Dr. Samuel Parkman, whose 
private worth, and whose eminence as a surgeon, make his recent death 
a loss to our whole community. 

Mr. Mason and Mr. Otis were the two chief Mount Vernon pro- 
prietors, and Mrs. Hepzibah C. Swan, wife of James Swan, Esq., was 
one of their associates. She was a lady of great personal beauty, of 
strong impulses, and of a most marked and decided character. Mr. 
Swan was at Paris during all the fearful events of the old French Revo- 
lution. He died in 1831, in Paris; Mrs. Swan in 1829. 



PERKINS. 

Abraham Perkins, of Massachusetts, was admitted freeman 1640. 
Isaac, of Massachusetts, freeman in 1642. John, of Ipswich, was born 
about 1590. Came to New England, and was admitted freeman in 1633, 
settled in Ipswich in 1633, representative in 1636. He died in 1654. 
He might be the same person who arrived with Mr. Williams, Feb. 5. 
1631. John of Ipswich, 1684, son of the preceding, was admitted 
freeman in 1637. William, of Ipswich, 1633, freeman 1634, is supposed to 
have been the same who preached at Grloucester 1651, 1655, and became 
the second minister of Topsfield, and died May 21, 1682, aet. 75, leaving 
sons, Tobijah, John, Timothy, probably William, who died at Topsfield 
in 1696, and five daughters, who all married. William of Wymouth, was 
member of the Ar. Co. 1638, Kepresentative 1644, and leader of the 
military band. There was a William Perkins, of Roxbury, whose son 
William died in 1639. Forty-two persons of the name had graduated in 
New England in 1826. 

William Perkins, remarkable for his longevity, was born in the west 
of England, and died at New Market, N. H., in 1732, aged 116 years. 

Dr. Elisha Perkins, the inventor of the tractors, was the son of 
Dr. Joseph Perkins, a distinguished phsyician of Norwich, Conn., who 
died in 1794, aged 90. He was born in Jan. 1740 ; having studied 
with his father, he settled in Plainfield, Conn., and had extensive 
practice. His habits were social; his mind active and inquisitive. 
About the year 1796, he invented the tractors, which are two in- 
struments, one of steel, the other of brass, pointed at one end. Cures 



PERKINS. 151 

were effected by drawing the points for a few minutes over the part of 
the body diseased. Thus the toothache, the headache, rheumatic and 
other pains were removed. A patent was obtained. The fame of Per- 
kinism extended to Europe. The son of Dr. Perkins went to London, 
where a Perkinean institution was created for the benefit of the poor, 
of which Lord Kivers was President. The published cases of cures 
amounted to 5,000, certified by eight professors, forty physicians and 
surgeons, and thirty clergymen ; yet it was not long before the tractors 
sunk into neglect. Dr. Perkins invented an antiseptic medicine, and 
repaired to New York to test its efficacy against the yellow fever ; but he 
took the disease, and died in Sept. 1799, aged 59. His son, Bejn. D. 
Perkins, a graduate of Yale College in 1794, a bookseller at New York, 
died in Oct. or Nov., 1810, being highly respected for his intelligence, 
benevolence and piety. 

James Perkins, Esq., a benefactor of Harvard College, and of the 
Boston Athenseum, was born in Boston in 1761, and was the son of 
Mr. James Perkins. Educated as a merchant in the counting-house of 
the Messrs. Shattucks, he settled in St. Domingo ; but was driven away 
by the revolution in that island. 

On his return he engaged in business with his brother. Col. Thomas 
Handyside Perkins, and conducted an extensive trade to the north-west 
coast, and to China. He died at Roxbury, Aug. 1, 1822, aged 61. 
His wife was the daughter of Timothy Paine, of Worcester. He was 
an upright merchant. One of his last acts of liberality was the gift to 
the Boston Athenaeum of the house now occupied by the institution — 
an estate which was valued at eighteen thousand dollars. 

He also in his will bequeathed twenty thousand dollars to Harvard 
College. His fine portrait is preserved in the Athenaeum. 



152 THE GKANARY BURIAL GROUND. 

No. 3. 
THOMAS AND A. D. PECK, 
1771. 



No. 19. 
JOHN MOLINEAUX'S TOMB, 

1809. 

HERE LIES ENTOMBED THE REMAINS OF 

MR. WILLIAM MOLINEAUX, 

WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE DEC'R 220,1774, 

IN THE 58TH YEAR OF HIS AGE. 



No. 15. 

THE TOMB OF 

JOSEPH HAWLEY DORR AND SAMUEL DORR, 

1810. 



No. 7. 
BELONGS TO E, PRICE. 



MARGARET SMITH AND SETH THAXTER'S TOMB, 

1807. 



INSCEIPTIONS. 

No. 114. 

THOMAS SNELLING'S TOMB, 

1810. 



153 



No. 106. 
JAMES AND DAVID HOMER, 

AND 

JOHN ASHTON'S TOMB. 



HERE LYES YE BODY OF 

MR. HENRY PETTIT, 

AGED 32 YEARS AND 5 DAYS, 
DEPARTED THIS LIFE JULY YE 19TH, 1721. 

[Note.] This is a small stone, standing 12 feet north of Heut. Gov. Cnshing's 
Monument. 



No. 112. 
DOOT. WILLIAM SPOONER. 



ANN POLLARD, 

DAUGHTER OF WILLIAM AND ANN POLLARD, 

AGED 19 YEARS, 

DYED YE 24 OF OCTOBER, 1688. 



154 THE GRANARY BURIAL GROUND. 

No. 6. 
EDWARD BLAKE, JUN'R. 



TOMB. 

MR. JOSEPH LASINBY, 
DIED SEPT. 9TH, 1774, AGED 80 YEARS. 
COAT OF ARMS. 



HERE LYES BURIED THE BODY OF 

MRS. ABIGAIL POTTS, 

;HE died march 3d, nSO, aged 74 YEARS. 



THE TOMB OF HUGH HALE, ESQR. 



ISAAC WHITE'S TOMB, 

1807. 



No. 14. 
TOMB OF JOSHUA EMMONS. 



PAYNE ARMES. 



HERE LYES BURIEB 
THE BODY OF 

MRS. ELIZABETH GORE, 

DIED OCT. YE 12tH, 

1751, 

AGED 40 YEARS. 



HERE LYES BURIED 
THE BODY OF 

MRS. SARAH GORE, 

DIED MAY YE 1.5tH, 

1751, 

AGED 35 YEARS AND 6 MO. 



GOVERNOR CHRISTOPHER GORE. 

John Gore, of Rosbury, was admitted freeman in 1637, member of 
the Ar. Co. 1638, died June 4, 1657. John Gore, perhaps a son of 
his, died at Roxbury, June 26, 1705. 

John Gore, one of his descendants, graduated at H, C. 1702. 

The late Governor Christopher Gore is believed to have been of this 
family. He was born in Boston in 1758 ; his father was a respectable 
mechanic, who at the beginning of the Revolution, as he adhered to the 
royal government, went to Halifax, but afterwards returned to Boston. 

He graduated in 1776, and after studying law with Judge Lowell, 
engaged in extensive and lucrative practice. In 1789, he was appointed 
first United States Attorney for Mass., in the execution of which office he 
met with difficulties, but he resolutely pursued the course of duty. In 
1796 he was appointed colleague with William Pinkney, a Commissioner 



156 THE GRANARY BURIAL GROUND. 

under the fourth article of Jay's treaty with England, to settle our claim 
for spoliations. By his efforts, when in England, he recovered sums, to a 
vast amount, for our citizens ; his argument on that class of captures, 
which were made under the rule of 1756, was elaborate and powerful. 
As his commission lasted nearly eight years, he remained abroad till 
1804. In the preceding year he had been left by his intimate friend, 
Rufus King, minister to England, Charg6 d'affaires. After his return he 
was chosen, in 1809, Governor of Mass., as successor of Grovernor Sulli- 
van, but the next year the people chose Mr. Gerry in his place. 

In 1814 he was appointed Senator to Congress, in which capacity he 
served about three years, and then withdrew into final retirement. His 
residence was a beautiful seat about nine miles from Boston, at Waltham, 
whence he was accustomed frequently to walk into town. 

An excruciating disorder embittered his last years. He died March 
1, 1827, aged 68. His friend, Mr. King, died the next month. Having 
no children, Mr. Gore left valuable bequests to the American Academy 
and the Historical Society, of which he was a member ; and he made 
Harvard College his residuary legatee. With the literature of the day 
he had kept himself well acquainted, and he was an excellent classical 
scholar. His mind was acute and discriminating ; his morals pure ; his 
manners dignified and elegant. He published a Masonic oration in 
1783. 



BUMSTEAD. 

Edward Bumstead, of Boston, was a freeman in 1640 ; had a son, 
Joseph, born in 1653. 

Thomas, of Boston, member of the Ar. Co. 1647, died 1677 ; had 
a son, Gerard, born at Roxbury 1643. 



HERE LYES THE REMAINS OF 

MR. FITCH POOLE, 

MERCHANT OF THIS TOWN, 

• WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE SEPT. THE 2D, 1T70, 

IN THE 34TH YEAR OF HIS AGE. 

" THE SWEET REMEMBRANCE OF THE JUST, 

" SHALL FLOURISH WHEN THEY SLEEP IN DUST." 

[Note.] This monument stands 74 feet southwest of the Franklin Monument, 
and directly in front of the tomb of Mr. Phillips and heirs, and Moses Bass, and near 
the path. 



POOLE. 

Elizabeth Poole, of Taunton, 1639, " the virgin mother of that 
town," one of its greatest proprietors, and a chief promoter of its settle- 
ment, died May 21, 1654, aged 66. Henry Poole, of Boston, died 
Sept. 14, 1643. John Poole, of Cambridge, 1632, perhaps of Lynn, in 
1639, and afterwards of Keading. Jonathan Poole, of Reading, was 
representative in 1677, perhaps freeman 1673. Samuel Poole was a 
merchant of Boston, member of the church 1640. William Poole, of 
Dorchester, was town clerk about forty years, and often a schoolmaster. 
He died Feb. 24, 1672. Mr. Savage names a Mr. William Poole, who 
had a son drowned at or near Taunton, Dec. 15, 1667. Pitch Poole, 
Esq., the Poet of Danvers, is supposed to be a descendant of John 
Poole, of Cambridge, and Lynn. 



158 THE GKANARY BURIAL GROUND. 

TOMB No. 110. 
CORNELIUS COOLIDGE, 
1810. 



HERE LIES THE BODY OF 

ELIS'TH CALDWELL, 

SECOND DAUGHTER OF 

CAPT. ROBERT AND FRANCES CALDWELL, 

WHO DIED AUGUST 6TH, 1795, 

AGED 17 YEARS. 

HERE LIES INTERRED THE BODY OF 

ROBERT CALDWELL, 

SON OF CAPT. THOMAS AND FRANCES CALDWELL, 

WHO DIED SEPT. 13TH, 1795, 

AGED 4 YEARS AND 6 MONTHS. 



MR. SAM HELYER. 



TOMB No. 109. 

LORENZO DRAPER. AND FRANCIS TUFTS, 

1811. 



INSCRIPTIONS. 159 

TOMB No. 108. 
JOSEPH TILDEN AND C. LUDDINGTON. 



HERE LIES IKTERED THE BODY OF 

CAPT. NICHOLAS GARDNER, 

WHO WAS WOUNDED BY THE ENEMY, 
OF WHICH HE DIED JUNE 13tH, 1782, AGED 33 YEARS. 
[Note.] This gravestone stands 19 feet south of Franklin's Monumwit. 



HERE LYES INTERED THE BODY OF 

MRS. LYDIA DRAPER, 

WIDOW OF DEACON RICHARD DRAPER, 
WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE AUg't YE 30tH, 1747, 

m YE 77th year of her age. 

HERE LIES INTERED THE BODY OF 

MR. RICHARD DRAPER 

SON OP MR, JOHN DRAPER, DECEASED, 

WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE IN HOPES OF A GLORIOUS 

RESURRECTION TO IMMORTALITY, 

JUNE 4th, 1774, AGED 47 YEAKS. 



160 THE GRANARY BURIAL GROUND. 

No. 111. 
OBADIAH WRIGHT AND ISAAC TRASK'S TOMB, 
1810. 



HERE LIES INTERRED THE BODY OF 

MR. THOMAS CRAWFORD, 

WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE AUG. 23D, 1773, 

AGED 56 YEARS. 

" STOP HERE, MY FRIENDS, AND CAST AN EYE, 
" AS YOU ARE NOW, SO ONCE WAS I J 
"as I AM NOW, SO YOU MUST BE, 
"prepare FOR DEATH AND FOLLOW ME." 

A GOOD NAME IS BETTER THAN PRECIOUS OINTMENT.' 



MARY MORRIS, 
1741. 



HERE LYES THE BODY OF 

MRS. MARY MCNIEL, 

THE CONSORT OF CAPT. HECTOR MCNIEL, 

WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE FEB'Y 7TH, 1769, AGED 38 YEARS. 



REV. THOMAS BALDWIN. 

Thomas Baldwin, D D., was born in Norwich, Conn., December 23d, 
1753. After he removed to Canaan, N. H., he became pious and joined 
the Baptist Church in 1781. It was with pain he thus forsook his con- 
nections and early friends, for he had been educated a Pedobaptist, and 
his venerable minister at Norwich was his grand uncle. Having for 
some time conducted the religious exercises at public meetings, in Au- 
gust, 1782, he ventured for the first time to take a text, and preach doc- 
trinally and methodically. His advantages for mental culture had been 
few. At the request of the Church, he was ordained June 11th, 1783, 
as an Evangelist, and he performed the duties of pastor for seven years, 
besides preaching often during each week, in the towns within a circle of 
fifty miles, " chiefly at his own charges," sometimes receiving small pres- 
ents, but never having a public contribution. 

In these journeys he was obliged to climb rocky steeps, and to pass 
through dismal swamps ; and as the poor people had no sUver, and the 
continental currency was good for nothing, sometimes the travelling 
preacher was obliged either to beg, or to starve. 

For several years he was chosen a member of the Legislature. In 
1790 he was invited to Boston, as pastor of the second Baptist Church. 
He now successfully pursued a course of study, and by his unwearied 
exertions, acquired a high rank as a preacher. His church though small 
in 1790, became, under his care, the most numerous and flourishing, of 
his own denomination in New England. 



11 



162 THE GRANAEY BURIAL GROUND. 



eijISha brown, 

OF BOSTON, 

WHO, 

IN OCT'R, 1769, DURING 17 DAYS, 

INSPIRED WITH 

A GENEROUS ZEAL FOR THE LAWS, 

BRAVELY AND SUCCESSFU*** 

OPPOSED A WHOLE BRITISH REG'T, 

IN THEIR 

VIOLENT ATTEMPTS 

TO FORCE HIM 

FROM HIS LEGAL HABITATION. 

HAPPY CITIZEN, 

WHEN CALL'D SINGLEY TO BE 

A BARRIER 

TO 

THE LIBERTYS OF A CONTINENT. 



ELISHA BROWN. 

Elisha Brown was an inhabitant of the southerly part of Boston, 
where he owned an estate of considerable value. In the year 1769, 
when the British soldiers held possession of the town, his house, a very 
commodious mansion, was selected as remarkably well adapted for the use 
of barracks, and he was peremptorily ordered to vacate the premises for 
their convenience. On refusing to comply with the demand of the sol- 
diers, the house was surrounded by the troops, and kept in a state of 
siege. It is said that for seventeen days he prevented the troops from 
gaining their wishes, he having, barred all the windows and doors on the 
inside of the house, and relying for sustenance on the usual family stores 
which he had provided for family use, and upon the supplies which his 
friends from without, from time to time found opportunities to convey to 
him. He died in August, 1785, at the age of 65 years. 



PEARCE. 

David Pearce was the son of David Pearce, Esq., of Gloucester, 
Mass., and was born in Gloucester, January 18, 1766. He graduated at 
Harvard University in 1786, and was afterwards a merchant in Boston, 
and ship owner. He married Kebecca, daughter and co-heir of Dr. 
Charles Kussell, of Charlestown, Mass., M. D.,* by his wife Elizabeth, 
only daughter and heir of Colonel Henry Vassall, of Cambridge, Mass. 
He died in Boston, May 1807, set. 41, having had two sons, one of whom 
died a bachelor, the other, Charles Eussell Pearce, Esq., resides in Bal- 
timore, Md. 

LINEAGE. 

Abraham Pierce, or Peirce, came to Plymouth, Mass., circa 1623, 
removed to Duxbury prior to 1643, and died there before 1673. By 
Rebecca, his wife, he had two sons, the eldest of whom, 

Abraham Pierce, was born in Plymouth, January, 1638, and died in 
Duxbury, January, 1718, set. 80. He had issue by Hannah, his wife, 
three sons, one of whom, 

Samuel Pierce, married Mary, daughter of John Saunders, one of 

* Dr. Russell was a Loyalist, and removed to Antigua, where he died in 1780. He 
was brother of the Hon. Thomas Russell, of Boston, who died in 1796. They were 
sons of Judge James RusseU, of Charlestown, nephews of Judge Chambers Russell, grand- 
sons of Judge Thomas Greaves, and great-grandsons of Judge James Russell and 
Judge Charles Chambers. Rebecca, sister of Dr. Charles and the Hon. Thomas Rus- 
sell, married Judge John Lowell, Chief Justice U. S. Circuit Court, who died in 1802. 



PEAKCE, 165 

the Selectmen of Cape Porpoise, Me. He removed to Gloucester, Mass., 
circa 1710. His son, 

David Pierce, born October 5, 1713, married Mary, daughter of 
Samuel Stephens, and niece of Colonel John Stephens. He died A. D. 
1759, set. 46. His eldest son, 

David Pearce, born October 26, 1736, altered the spelling of his 
name to Pearce. He married first Bethia, daughter of Captain Josiah 
Ingersoll. He wedded secondly Mary, sister of his first wife, and es- 
poused thirdly, Elizabeth, daughter of Colonel Baldwin, of Brookfield, 
Mass. He had two sons, one of whom died unmarried ; the other, David 
Pearce, settled in Boston, as before stated. He had also a daughter, 
Abigail Pearce, who married Benjamin Parrott Homer, Esq.,* of Bos- 
ton.! He died March, 1818, get, 81. 

* Vide Bridgman's King's Chapel Epitaphs. 

t For a full account of this family, vide N. E. Hist. Genealogical Register, Vol. vi. 
p. 276, and vii. p. 94. 



JUDGE WADSWOETH. 

Judge Wadsworth was the son of Captain Samuel Wadsworth, of 
the Colonial service, by his wife Abigail, daughter of James Lindall, or 
Lendall, and grandson of Christopher Wadsworth, one of the earliest 
settlers of Duxbury, Mass., and many times one of the Selectmen of that 
town and Representative to the General Court. 

He was born in Milton, Mass., February 11, 1667. He was Trea- 
surer of the town of Boston for thirty years, from 1719 until 1749, and 
Justice of the Court of Sessions from 1725. He died November 20, 
1750, get. 83. 

Judge Wadsworth was brother of the Reverend Benjamin Wads- 
worth, President of Harvard University. Another brother, Deacon 
John Wadsworth, one of the Selectmen of Milton and Representative to 
the General Court, was maternal grandfather of the late Benjamin Par- 
roit Homer,* Esquire, of Boston. 

* Vide Bridgman's King's Chapel Epitaphs, p. 202. 



INSOBIPTIONS. 167 

LIES THE BODY OF 

MR. BENJAMIN COUELL, 

AGED 23 YEARS, 
DIED APRIL YE 19tH, 1752. 



LYES BURIED THE BODY OF 

MR. ROWLAND HOUGHTON, 

AGED 66 YEARS. 
DYED AUGUST YE 7tH, 1744. 



JOHN WHITE, 

SON TO BENIAMIN AND MARY WHITE, 
AGED 4 DAYS, 

DIED dec'r. 31, 1716. 



MARY, 

DAUT. TO BENj'n AND MARY WHITE, 

aged about 4 years, 
dec'd nov'r ye * * 1721. 



168 THE GKANARY BURIAL GROUND. 

MISS ELISABETH PHILLIPS, 

DAUGHTER TO CAPT. BENj'n PHILLIPS, AND MRS. MARY, HIS WIPE, 

DIED OCT. 5th, 1782, 

AGED 26 YEARS. 



HERE LIES INTERED THE BODY OF 

. MR. JOHN PHILLIPS, 

WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE NOV'r THE 5tH, 1765, 
AGED 44 YEARS. 



HERE LIES THE BODY OF 

MRS. ELISABETH PHILLIPS, 

THE WIFE OF MR. BENJAMIN PHILLIPS, 

AGED 23 YEARS, 

DIED MARCH 22d, 1755. 



MRS. LUCY PHILLIPS, 

WIPE TO CAPT. BENJAMIN PHILLIPS, 

DEPARTED THIS LIFE JUNE 21 ST, 1783, 

AGED 55 YEARS. 



INSCRIPTIONS. 169 

HERE LYES BUKIED THE BODY OF 

CAPT. HENRY BARLOW, 

WHO DEc'd DECEMBER 18tH, 1739, AGED 45 YEARS, 



HERE LYES YE BODY OF 

MRS. MARY W INOCK, 

WIFE TO MR. JOSHUA WINOCK, 
AGED 25 YEARS, 

dec'd APRIL YE 4th, 1728. 



HANNAH, 

YE DAu't OF MR. JOHN AND MRS. ELIs'tH PINCKNEY, 
AGED 18 MONTHS, 

dec'd OCT. YE 25th, 1729. 



ANNA MCNEILL 



HERE LYES YE BODY OF 

MRS. JOSEPH BERREY, 

AGED 39 YEARS. 

dec'd SEPT. THE 25th, 1721. 



THE VICTIMS 



BOSTON MASSACEE. 

(From Loring"s Hunclred Boston Orators.) 

The Boston Athenasum overlooks the cemetery where were deposited 
the remains of our fellow-citizens martyred in the cause of liberty, 
March 5, 1770. Here repose the ashes of Hancock and Gushing, the 
latter of whom was lieutenant-governor during the administration of 
the former. Though Sumner speaks of " Hancock's broken column," 
the idea is merely poetical, for no monument has ever been erected 
over his remains. It is stated in the Boston News Letter that four 
of the victims were conveyed on hearses, and buried on the eighth of 
March, in one vault, in the Middle Burying Ground. The funeral 
consisted of an immense number of persons in ranks of six, followed 
by a long train of carriages belonging to the principal gentry of the 
town, at which time the bells of Boston and adjoining towns were 
tolled. It is supposed that a greater number of people of Boston and 
vicinity attended this funeral than were ever congregated on this con- 
tinent on any occasion. In this procession emblematical banners were 
displayed. The following effusion appeared in Fleet's Post, March 12, 
1770: 

" With fire en wrapt, surcharged with sudden death, 
Lo, the poised tube convolves its fatal breath ! 
The flying ball, with heaven-directed force, 
Rids the free spirit of its fallen corse. 



THE VICTIMS OF THE BOSTON MASSACKE. l7l 

Well-fated shades ! let no unmanly tear 
From pity's eye distain your honored bier. 
Lost to their view, surviving friends may mourn, 
Yet o'er thy pile celestial flames shall burn. 
Long as in Freedom's cause the wise contend. 
Dear to yoxir country, shall your fame extend ; 
While to the world the lettered stone shall tell 
How Caldwell, Attucks, Gray and Maverick fell." 

On the fourteentli of March, Patrick Carr, who died of the wound 
received in the massacre, was buried from Faneuil Hall, in the same 
grave in which the other victims were deposited. 

The poet who wrote the effusion above quoted predicts that the let- 
tered stone shall tell the tale of the martyred sons of liberty ; but no 
stone appears on the spot where they were buried. Indeed, if any 
stone were ever erected over their remains, it may have been destroyed 
by the British regulars, or removed in making repairs on the ground. 
Let the prediction be realized by the erection of a beautiful marble 
monument on the site to the memory of this event, which, with the 
battles of Lexington and Bunker Hill, insured our independcDce. 

Our venerable native citizen of Boston, the Hon. Thomas Handy- 
side Perkins, probably the only survivor who has any remembrance of 
the Boston massacre, stated to the editor of this work, at an interview 
with him on Jan. 3, 1851, that at that period he was five years of age, 
and asleep at home on the evening of its occurrence. His father, 
James Perkins, a wine-merchant, resided in King-street, on the present 
location of Tappan's stone building, opposite Mackerel-lane, now Kilby- 
street. On the next day, his father's man-servant, being desirous that 
he should witness the effects of this occurrence, imprudently, as Mr. 
Perkins remarked, went with him to the Royal Exchange Tavern, 
located on the opposite side of the custom-house, now the site of the 
Messrs. Grilberts, brokers, kept by Mr. Stone. Alexander Cruikshank 
testified that when he was at the head of Boyal Exchange-lane, he 
stopped at Stone's tavern, and the people were abusing the sentinel, and 
showed him the dead body of Crispus Attucks, one of the victims. He 



172 THE GRANARY BURIAL GROUND. 

then pointed to him the frozen blood in the gutter, opposite the Ex- 
change Tavern, and proceeded with him to the residence of Tuthill 
Hubbard, on Cornhill, a short distance from the north side of Queen- 
street, where hay the dead body of another of the victims ; and tliis is 
the whole of his recollection of the tragical event, which has never been 
effaced from his mind. Colonel Perkins is unable to state which of the 
victims he saw at Mr. Hubbard's residence ; but, as Joseph Hinckley 
testified, according to the trial, that, after the regulars had fired, he 
assisted in the removal of Samuel Grray, who had fallen, to the apothe- 
cary's shop of Dr. John Loring, which was adjoining or very near Mr. 
Hubbard's dwelling, and could not find admittance, as it was closed, — 
doubtless, that was the name of the other victim whose remains were 
exhibited to his youthful eye. 

In order to a further elucidation of this matter, we have recurred to 
the papers of the day, by which it appears that Grray was killed on the 
spot, as the ball entered his head and broke the skull. He was a rope- 
maker, and, on the day of interment, his body was conveyed from the 
residence of Benjamin Gray, his brother, on the south side of the 
Exchange Tavern. Now, Col. Perkins is either mistaken regarding the 
house where he saw the pale corpse, or else it was removed from Mr. 
Hubbard's dwelling on the next day. James Caldwell, also killed on 
the spot by two balls entering his breast, was mate of Captain Morton's 
vessel, and his body was removed from the captain's residence in Cole- 
lane on the day of interment. Crispus Attucks being a stranger, his 
remains were conveyed from Faneuil Hall. He was killed by two balls 
entering his breast, and was a native of Framingham ; and Samuel, a 
son of widow Mary Maverick, a promising youth of seventeen years, an 
apprentice to Mr. Greenwood, a joiner, was wounded by a ball that 
entered his abdomen and escaped through his back, which caused his 
death, and his remains were removed from his mother's house on the 
day of interment. Patrick Carr, who died a few days after, of a ball 
that entered near his hip and went out at his side, was in the employ of 
one Mr. Field, leather-breeches maker in Queen-street, and aged about 
thirty years. Among other matters in the warrant for the annual town- 



THE VICTIMS OF THE BOSTON MASSACEE. 173 

meeting of Boston, March 12, 1770, is the following clause : — "Whether 
the town will take any measures that a public monument may be erected 
on the spot where the late tragical scene was acted, as a memento to 
posterity of that horrid massacre, and the destructive consequences of 
military troops being quartered in a well-regulated city." We notice, 
on turning to the records, that no action was taken on this point ; but 
the town voted their thanks to the towns of Roxbury, Cambridge, 
Charlestown and Watertown, for their kind concern in this deplorable 
event. As the precise location of this scene will ever be a point of 
great interest to Bostoniaus, we gather, from the deposition of Samuel 
Drowne, that it occurred between Crooked, now Wilson's-lane, and 
Royal Exchange-lane. He states that he was standing on the steps of 
the Exchange Tavern, being the next house to the Custom-house; and 
soon after saw Captain Preston, whom he well knew, with a number of 
soldiers drawn near the west corner of the Custom-house, and heard 

Preston say, "D n your bloods! why don't you fire?" after which 

they fired. 

At a town-meeting, Boston, March 19, 1771, Hon. Thomas Cushing 
moderator, the committee appointed to consider of some suitable method 
to perpetuate the memory of the horrid massacre perpetrated on the 
evening of the fifth of March, 1770, by a party of soldiers of the 29th 
regiment, reported as their opinion that, for the present, the town make 
choice of a proper person to deliver an oration at such time as may be 
judged most convenient, to commemorate the barbarous murder of five 
of our fellow-citizens on that fatal day, and to impress upon our minds 
the ruinous tendency of standing armies in free cities, and the necessity 
of such noble exertions, in all future times, as the inhabitants of the 
town then made, whereby the designs of the conspirators against the 
public liberty may be still frustrated ; and the committee, in order to 
complete the plan of some standing monument of military tyranny, 
begged leave to be indulged with farther time. Their report being 
accepted, it was voted unanimously that the town will now come to the 
choice of an orator. A committee was then appointed ; Samuel Hunt 
and James Lovell were nominated as candidates to deliver the oration. 



174 THE GEANARY BURIAL GROUND. 

The inhabitants then voted, and the latter was elected. A committee 
was appointed to wait on James Lovell, and invite his acceptance. 

In regard to the location of the site where the victims of the Boston 
massacre were deposited, the editor has the evidence of the venerable 
Col. Joseph May, a warden of King's Chapel, possessing great integrity 
and a tenacious memory, stated previous to his decease in 1841, and 
who witnessed their interment, being then ten years of age, and a scholar 
in the public Latin school. Pointing to the spot which is the site of a 
tomb once owned by the city, in the rear of the tomb of Deacon 
Richard Checkley,*an apothecary. Col. May stated that was the place 
where he saw them interred, A beautiful larch-tree flourishes at the 
side of the city tomb, which is opposite Montgomery-place. When, 
during the mayoralty of Jonathan Chapman, an iron fence was erected 
on the Granary cemetery, in the month of June, 1840, an excavation 
was made over this spot, for the erection of this city tomb, human bones, 
and a skull with a bullet-hole perforated through it, were discovered, 
which probably were remains of these victims; and we have the 
evidence of the late Martin Smith, sexton of King's Chapel church, 
that he assisted in throwing the skull and other bones into the earth 
near the larch-tree. 

RETURNS OF THE KILLED AND WOUNDED IN THE BOSTON MASSACRE. 
SAMUEL GRAY, • JOHN CLARK, 

CRISPUS ATTUCKS, EDWARD PAYNE, 

JAMES CALDWELL, JOHN GREEN, 

SAMUEL MAVERICK, ROBERT PATTERSON, 

CHRISTOPHER MONK, PATRICK CARR, 

DAVID PARKER. 



INSCRIPTIONS. 175 

HERE LYETH YE BODY OF 

JOSEPH SKINNER, 

AGED ABOUT 35 TEARS, 

deo'd JUNE YE 14th, 1704. 



HERE LYES BURIED THE BODY OP 

MRS. ANNE RATHBUN, 

WHO DIED nov'r YE 13th, 1753, 

AGED 80 YEARS AND 6 MO. 



HERB LIES BURIED THE BODY OP 

JOSIAS BYLES, 

WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE MARCH THE 28tH, 1752, 
AGED 70 YEARS. 



HERE LIES BX7RIED THE BODY OP 

MRS. SARAH BYLES, 

WIFE OP JOSIAS BYLES, 
WHO DIED JUNE YE 8tH, 1752, AGED 41 YEARS. 



176 THE GRANARY BURIAL GROUND. 

HERE LIES BURIED THE BODY OF 

MRS. SARAH BYLES, 

DAu'r of MR. JOSIAS AND MRS. SARAH BYLES, 

dec'd may 12th, 1754, 

AGED 20 years. 



HERE LYES YE BODY OF 

MRS. ELISABETH BYLES, 

WIFE OF MR. JOHN BYLES, JUN'r, 
DIED JUNE YE 18tH, 1730, IN YE 21 YEAR OP HER AGE. 



IN MEMORY OF 

MR. DANFORTH PHIPPS, 

WHO DIED OCTOBER 19tH, 1783. 
AGED 22 YEARS. 



YE SON OF JOSUS AND SARAH BYLES, 

AGED 32 DAYS, 

DIED APRIL YE 22d, 1694. 



INSCRIPTIONS. 177 

HERE LIES INTERED YE BODY OF 

MR. JOTHAM BUSH, 

OF SHREWSBURY, 

WHO DIED WITH THE SMALL POX, 

FEBRUARY YE 15TH, ANNO DOM. 1778, 

IN YE 49TH YEAR OF HIS AGE. 

" my flesh shall slumber in ye ground, 
"till ye last trumpet's joyful sound; 
" then burst the chains with sweet surprise, 
"and in my saviour's image rise." 



No. 69. 
SAMUEL A. SHED AND WILLIAM GODARD'S TOMB. 



No. 70. 

[arms.] 
THOMAS HUBBARD, ESQ.'S TOMB. 

I KNOW THAT THOU WILT BRING ME TO DEATH." 

SOtli chapter, 23d verse Job. 

" I KNOW THAT MY REDEEMER LIVETH." 

^ 19th chapter, 25th verse. 

12 



178 THE GKANARY BURIAL GROUND. 

HERE LYES YE BODY OF 

MRS. MARY EMMONS, 

DAUGHTER OF CAPT. SIMON AMORT, 

AGED 66 YEARS, 

DYED OCTOBER YE 8tH, 1740, 

AND 

MARY EMMONS, 

DAUGHTER OF BENj'n EMMONS, JUN., 
AGED 3 MONTHS, DYED JAn'rY 23d, 1743. 

[Note.] The above inscription is on a slab covering the first tomb south of the 
Tremont Honse. 



HERE LYES YE BODY OF 



MR. ANDREW TYLER, 

WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE AUGUST 12tH, A. D. 1741, 
IN YE 49tH YEAR OF HIS AGE. 



No. 66. 

COAT OF ARMS. 
NON SOLA MORTALI LUCE RADIOR. 

THIS TOMB REPAIRED BY 

THOMAS PERKINS, 1796. 



INSCRIPTIONS. 179 

HERE LYES BURIED YE BODY OP 

LISLEY PALMER, 

AGED 38 YEARS, 
DEPARTED THIS LIFE FEBRUARY YE 12, 1682-3. 



TOMB No. 162. 
JAMES PHILLIPS 



IN MEMORY OF 

JOHN WHEATLEY, 

AN INDUSTRIOUS MEMBER OF SOCIETY, 

AND A HUMBLE CHRISTIAN, 

WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE 12tH MARCH, 1778, ^T. 72. 



IN MEMORY OP 

MRS. SALLY CAMPBELL, 

DAUGHTER OF MR. PATRICK CAMPBELL, 

WHO DIED DECEMBER 15tH, 1790, 

AGED 14 YEARS. 



180 THE GRANARY BURIAL GROUND. 

TOMB No. 51. 
JOHN HUNT. 



IN MEMORY OF 

MRS. SARAH TORREY, 

WIFE OF MR. EBEn'r TORREY, 
DIED FEb'y 9th, 1781, AGED 42 YEAE8, 



MRS. LUCY PHILLIPS, 

WIFE TO CAPT. BENJAMIN PHILLIPS, 
DEPARTED THIS LIFE JUNE 21ST, 1783, AGED 63 YEARS. 
[Note.] This monument is 30 feet west of Franklin's. 



LHIS TOMB REPAIRED BY 

GARDINER GREEN, 

GRANDSON OP MR. NATHANIEL AND MBS. ANN GREEN. 



THIS TOMB IS THE PROPERTY OF 
MR. DAVID FLAGG 

AND THE 

REV. THOMAS BALDWIN. 



JOHONNOT. 

Andrew Johonnot, distiller, was the son of Daniel and Susan Sigour- 
ney Johnson, the widow of John Johnson, and daughter of Andrew 
Sigourney. Her first husband and three children were massacred by 
the Indians at Oxford, Mass., in the year 1696. Mr. Johonnot died in 
Boston, June 1, 1760. His wife was the daughter of Anthonie and 
Mary Olivier, Huguenots from Rochelle. She died January 23, 1774. 

Mary Annie, the daughter of Daniel and Susan Johonnot, married 
James Bowyer ; their children were, Daniel, Peter, Susan, and James. 
Mr. Bowyer died April 26, 1741. Mrs. Bowyer, May 22, 1747. Both 
interred in the Granary Burying Ground. 

Zachariah Johonnot, whose tomb is in King's Chapel Burial Ground, 
was a son of Daniel and Susan Johonnot. He was a wealthy merchant, 
and distiller in Boston, and died in 1784, aged eighty-three years. His 
tomb is near the School-street gate. Susan, daughter of Andrew and 
Susan, married Lazarus Le Barron — died August 10, 1774. Martha, 
daughter of Andrew and Susan, died unmarried February 4, 1774, aged 
twenty-four years. Daniel, son of Daniel and Siisan, born March 19, 
1704, died in 1721. 



LEE. 

Abraham Lee was a chemist, and lived in Dover in 1680, and was 
killed by the Indians, June 27, 1689. The name of Lee had furnished 
twenty -four graduates at the New England colleges in 1 826, of whom 
the first, at Harvard College, was Henry Lee, 1722, a merchant of 
Salem, who died July 14, 1747, aged 44. Joseph Lee, Harvard Col- 
lege, 1729, was a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, and died De- 
cember 5, 1782. John, of Ipswich, 1648, died 1671. John, his eldest 
son, was a surgeon in the navy. Joseph, another son, married Mary 
Woodhouse, and settled in Concord as early as 1696. Samuel, minister 
of Bristol, was born in London in 1623 ; was educated at Oxford; came 
to New England June 24, 1686, and was settled at Bristol May 8, 1687. 
After the revolution in his native country, he was eagerly desirous of 
returning. Just before he sailed in 1691, he told his wife that he had 
viewed a star, which, according to the rules of astrology, presaged cap- 
tivity. He was captured by a French privateer, and carried into St. 
Maloes, in France. After suffering every thing which the prejudices of 
bigots could add to what national antipathies prompted, he died in 1691, 
aged 64, a victim to their cruelty, and was buried out of the city, as a 
heretic. One reason of his leaving England was, that he was afraid of 
the growth of Popery ; another, that he was invited to be President of 
Harvard College. 

He was never pleased with the state of things in New England. Be- 
ing eccentric in his genius and extravagant in his speech, he disgusted 
many who admired his talents and read his books with delight. 



LEE. 183 

He was rich, haughty, and overbearing. He was a man of great 
learning ; master of physics and chemistry, and well versed in all the 
liberal arts and sciences. He had studied the astrological art, but, 
disapproving of it, he burned a hundred books which related to the 
subject. 

His learning was united with charity, and the poor were often re- 
lieved by his bounty. He was a great writer, and printed a large num- 
ber of sermons and essays on various subjects. 

Samuel Lee, of Maiden, was admitted freeman in 1671. Thomas 
Lee, of Ipswich, brother of John, died in 1662, aged about 82. Walter 
Lee was among the first settlers of Northampton in 1659. He after- 
wards removed to Westfield, where it is believed he died. Many of his 
descendants are now residing in the western part of Massachusetts. 



184 THE GKANAKY BUKIAL GROUND. 

No. 39. 
CAPT. THOMAS ADDAMS TOMB. 



MRS. MARY PHILLIPS, 

WIFE OP DEACON JOHN PHILLIPS, 
DTED AUG'sT ye 15tH, 1742, AGED 39 YEARS. 

BENJAMIN PHILLIPS, 

AGED 6 YEARS AND 2 MO. DIED APRIL YE 27, 1746. 



HERE LYES BURIED THE BODY OF 

MR. FREDERICK CLARKE, 

SON OF MR. JOHN AND MRS. MARGARET CLARKE, 
WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE MAY YE 13tH, 1760, 
IN THE 22d year of HIS AGE. 
[Note.] This stone stands 30 feet south of the Franklin Montunent. 



DEBORAH COBHAM, 

WIFE TO JOSIAH COBHAM, 

AGED 46 YEARS, DIED JULY YE 15, 1685. 

[Note.] This stone is hut 20 inches high, and stands 16 feet east of the Franklin 
Monument. 



INSCEIPTIONS. 185 

HERE LYES YE BODY OF 
JOHN CLARK, 

SON OF EEV. MR. PETER CLARK, OF DANVERSE, AND MRS. DEBORAH, 
HIS WIFE, 

WHO DIED jan'ry 10, 1756, 

AGED 19 YEARS. 



IN MEMORY OF 

CAPT. CHRISTIAN HIGGINS, 

OF LYME, CONNECTICUT, 

WHO DIED OF THE SMALL POX, SEPT. 19tH, 1792, 

IN THE 67th year OF HIS AGE. 



IN MEMORY OF 

MRS. SALLY MAY, 
IFE OF MR. ENOCH MAY, 
WHO DIED APRIL 4TH, 1787, 
AGED 35 YEARS. 



HERE LIES 

MARY BASSET, 

AGED X. MONTHS, DIED JUNE, 1691. 



186 THE GRANAKY BURIAL GROUND. 

No. 55. 

MAJOR JOHN WENDELL, 

HIS DESCENDANTS AND THEIR FAMILIES 

THIS STONE PLACED BY 

D. TOWNSEND. 



HANNAH, 

YE DAUGHTER OF TIMOTHY AND RUTH CONNI**AM, 
AGED 6 YEARS AND 8 MO. 

*ec'd * * TOBER YE 13th, 1697. 
RUTH CONNIGHAM, 

AGED 16 MONTHS, DEc'd 1690. 



LYDIA WARD, 

YE DAUGHTER OP SAMUEL AND lOHANA WARD, 

AGED 19 YEARS, 

DYED AUGUST YE 5tH, 1690. 



TOMB OF 
WILLIAM ALLINE & NOAH DOGGETT. 



MARTHA HVNT, 

YE WIFE OF lOHN HUNT, 
AGED 30 YEARS, DIED YE 22 OF lANVARY, 1686-7. 
[Note.] This stone is 54 feet north of the Franklin Monument. 



HUNT. 

Edmund Hunt, of Cambridge, was an early settler of Duxbury, and 
one of the proprietors of Bridgewater, in 1645. Forty-one of the name 
had been educated at the colleges in New England and New Jersey, in 
1826. 

Enoch Hunt, of Weymouth, 1640. Ephraim, of the same town, 
1655, was a freeman in 1671, representative 1689 to 1691, and a cap- 
tain of the militia. William, of Concord, 1641, died at Marlborough in 
October, 1667, leaving sons : Samuel, freeman in 1654 ; Nehemiah ; 

Isaac ; and William. Kev. Hunt, a minister, who had been settled 

at Wroxall, in Warwickshire, came to New England, but at what time 
is uncertain. 

Jonathan Hunt came from Northampton, England, to Northampton, 
Mass., in 1660, via Middletown, Conn. His mother was Mary, daughter 
of Governor John Webster of Hartford, who died in Hadley. He mar- 
ried Clemence Hosmer (perhaps a daughter of Thomas Hosmer, who died 
at Northampton). He died September 30, 1691, aged 54. He was a 
deacon of the church, and a man of much influence. His children were : 



188 THE GKANARY BURIAL GROUND. 

Thomas, Jonathan, John, Hannah, Clemence, Ebenezer, Ebenezer 2d, 
Mary, Sarah, and one other, Samuel. Two of his sons went to Colchester, 
and one, Ebenezer, to Lebanon, Conn. He had thirteen children. Si- 
mon, of Coventry, Conn., son of the last named Ebenezer, was the great- 
grandfather of George Washington Hunt, of New York. Jonathan, born 
in 1665, had many descendants in Northampton. Rev. John Hunt who 
graduated at Harvard College, in 1764, was a grandson. He was pastor 
of the Old South Church in Boston from 1771 until his death at North- 
ampton, December 2, 1775. Mary, daughter of Jonathan, was born in 
1705. She married Col. Seth Pomroy, who fought so bravely at Bun- 
ker Hill. Ebenezer, born 1676, left a son and a daughter at North- 
ampton. 

The son was Deacon Ebenezer Hunt, who had twelve children — a 
son .and a daughter survived him. He died February 21, 1788, aged 
eighty-four. 

His son was Dr. Ebenezer Hunt, born 1744, graduated 1764, and 
studied physic with Dr. Pynchon of Springfield. He was a man univer- 
sally respected and beloved. He was many times a member of the 
Legislature, as Representative and Senator; an elector of President of 
the United States ; a magistrate, register of deeds, &c. He died De- 
cember 26, 1820, aged seventy-six, having practised physic for more 
than half a century, and in that time never having sued any person for 
debt incurred by medical attendance. His youngest brother. Col, Seth 
Hunt, of the Revolutionary army, graduated at Harvard College 1768. 
He married a Miss Bellows, and had one son, Gov. Seth Hunt. Dr. 
Ebenezer Hunt married Sarah Bradish, of Cambridge (sister of Mrs. 
Gen. Cobb), and had eight children. Three sons survived him, viz : 
Dr. David Hunt, who died July 8, 1837, aged sixty-four. (His wife was 
a wealthy daughter of Josiah Dickinson, and died September 25, 1838, 
aged sixty-one. His daughter, Sarah Mills, married Thomas Merrick 
Hunt,* of Auburn, New York. He died in October, 1855.) Eben- 

* He was a man of nice sense of honor, kindly disposed to all, a warm-hearted 
FRIEND, and a devoted Christian. He left a handsome property to his widow and 
children, who now reside in Auhurn, N. Y. 



HUNT. 189 

ezer Hunt, jr., graduated at Harvard College 1795 — was a member of 
the Massachusetts Constitutional Convention of 1820-1. He married 
a daughter of the Hon. Samuel Henshaw, of Northampton, and died 
June 9, 1835, aged sixty. Lewis Hunt died unmarried. 

Dr. David Hunt had thirteen children. Two of his sons, Seth and 
Alfred, now reside in Northampton, both married. His eldest daughter, 
Elizabeth, married Dr. Edwin Cook, of New York, and died some years 
since. 



HON. EBENEZER HUNT, M. D., 

DIED DEC'R. 26, A. D. 1820, 

AGED 76 YEARS. 

A LIFE DEVOTED TO THE FAITHFtTL DISCHARGE OF PUBLIC 

OFFICES, PROFESSIONAL DUTIES, AND DOMESTIC 

CHARITIES, ADORNED WITH CHRISTIAK 

GRACE, AND CHEERED BY CHRISTIAN HOPES, SPEAKS HIS EULOGT, 

AND CONSTITUTES HIS MEMORLa.L, 

'hic REQUIESCAT.' 



IN MEMORY OF 

MRS. SARAH HUNT, 

WIFE OF DOCT. EBENEZER HUNT, 

WHO DIED AUGUST 12TH, 1803, AGED 59 YEARS. 

" HOW POPULOUS, HOW VITAL IS THE GRAVE, 
" THIS IS creation's MELANCHOLY VAULT, 
" WHERE CHANGE SHALL BE NO MORE." 



190 



THE GKANARY BURIAL GROUND. 
HERE LYETH BURIED YE BODY OF 

JOHN CHECKLEY, 

AGED 76 YEARS, 
DECEASED YE IsT OF JANUARY, 1684-5. 



HERE LYETH BURIED YE BODY OF 

MARY, 

daughter to samuel and mary checkley, 

aged 16 months and 12 days, 

dec'd ye 24th of august, 1684. 



HERE LYES 
YE BODY OF 

PETER GEE, 

aged 74 YEARS, 

dec'd jan'y YE 25th, 
1682. 



here LYES 
YE BODY OF 

GRACE GEE, 

WIFE TO PETER GEE, 
AGED 80 YEARS, DECEASED DECEMBER 

YE 10th, 1688. 



HERE LYES BURIED YE BODY OF 

MR. MOSES WODLON, 

WHO DEC'D JUNE 9TH, 1730, 

AGED 20 YEARS AND 17 DAYS. 



INSCRIPTIONS. 191 

[This gravestone stands on the east side of the Cemetery, hetween the front gate 
and Park-street Church.] 

HERE LYES INTERED THE BODY OF 
MR. BENJAMIN WOODBRIDGE, 

SON OP 

THE HONOURABLE DUDLEY WOODBRIDGE, ESQ. 

WHO DEC'D JULY YE 3D, 1728, 

IN YE 20TH YEAR OF HIS AGE. 

[Note.] He was the first person kUled in a duel in New England. See Boston 
Evening Transcript, 1851, "Sigma." 



HERE LYES BURIED THE BODY OF 

CAPT. BENJAMIN RUSSELL, 

WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE 

JULY 29TH, 1760, 

IN THE 63D YEAR OF HIS AGE. 



IN MEMORY OF 
MR. JEREMIAH RUSSELL, 

SON OF MR. JEREMIAH AND MRS. MARY RUSSELL, 

DIED NOV'R 15TH, 1785, 

AGED 22 YEARS. 



192 THE GKANARY BURIAL GROUND. 

HERE LYES BURIED THE BODY OF 

MRS. SUSANNAH RUSSELL, 

WIDOW OF MR. JOSEPH RUSSELL, 

DEC'D NOV'R THE lOTH, 1744, IN THE 85TH YEAR OF HER AGE. 



HERE LYETH BURIED YE BODY OF 

ASAPH ELLIOTT, 

AGED 35 YEARS, DEPARTED THIS LIFE 

DECEMBER YE 3D, 1685. 



JACOB ELLIOTT, 

LATE DEACON OF YE 3D CHURCH OF CHRIST, 
IN BOSTON, 
DEC'D YE 17TH OF AUGUST, 1698, 
/ETATIS SU/E 61. 



HERE LYES YE BODY OP 

MRS. SILENCE ELIOT, 

WIDOW OF MR. JOSEPH ELIOT, 

SHE DJED THE 8tH OP JUNE, ANNO DOM. 1744, 

AGED 78 YEARS. 



CABOT. 

Hon. GrEORGE Cabot, a Senator, was born in Salem, Mass., in 1752. 
The name was, perhaps, originally Cobbett. His early employment was 
that of a shipmaster ; but his visits to foreign countries were made sub- 
servient to the enlargement of his knowledge. At the age of twenty- 
five he was a member of the Provincial Congress at Concord, in which 
body he opposed the project of establishing by law a maximum of prices, 
and contended for entire freedom of commerce. He was also a member 
of the State Convention for considering the Constitution of the United 
States. Being appointed, a few years afterwards, a Senator of the United 
States, he co-operated in the financial views of Hamilton, and assisted him 
by his extensive commercial knowledge. May 3, 1798, he was appoint- 
ed the first Secretary of the Navy ; but declining it, B. Stoddard received 
the appointment. Of the Eastern Convention, assembled at Hartford 
in 1814, during the war, Mr. Cabot was the president. He died at 
Boston, April 18, 1823, aged seventy-one years. 

Destitute of the advantages of a public education, Mr. Cabot was yet 
distinguished for his intelligence, and almost unequalled for the elo- 
quence of his conversation, especially on the topic of the French Kevo- 
lution. He was master of the science of political economy. In the 
party divisions of his day, he was a decided federalist — the friend of 
Hamilton and Ames. He had also enjoyed the confidence of Washing- 
ton. His fellow-citizens entrusted him with numerous offices, evincing 
their reliance on his wisdom and integrity. In private life he was most 
amiable, courteous and benevolent. He was a professor of religion in 
13 



194 THE GRANARY BURIAL GROUND. 

the church of which the minister was Dr. Kirkland, who, after his death, 
married his daughter. 

John Cabot, a Venetian, who first discovered the continent of Amer- 
ica, was perfectly skilled in all the sciences requisite to form an accom- 
plished mariner. He had three sons, Lewis, Sebastian, and Sanctius, 
all of whom he educated in a manner best calculated to make them able 
seamen. Encouraged by the success of Columbus, who returned in 
1493 from his first voyage, he was determined to attempt the discovery 
of unknown lands, particularly of a northwest passage to the East Indies. 
Having obtained a commission from King Henry VII., empowering him 
and his three sons to discover unknown lands, and to conquer and settle 
them, and giving him jurisdiction over the countries which he should 
subdue, on condition of paying the king one fifth part of all the gains, 
he sailed from Bristol with two vessels, freighted by the merchants of 
London and Bristol with articles of traffic, and with about 300 men, in 
May, 1497. He sailed towards the northwest till he reached the lati- 
tude of 58 degrees, when the floating ice and the severity of the weather 
induced him to alter his course to the southwest. He discovered land 
June 24, which, as it was the first that he had seen, he called Prima 
Vista. This is generally supposed to be a part of the island of New- 
foundland, though in the opinion of some it is a place on the peninsula 
of Nova Scotia in the latitude of 45 degrees. A few days afterwards a 
smaller island was discovered, to which he gave the name of St. John, 
on account of its being discovered on the day of John the Baptist. 
Continuing his course westwardly, he soon reached the continent, and 
then sailed along the coast northwardly to the latitude of sixty- 
seven and a half degrees. As the coast stretched toward the east, he 
turned back and sailed toward the equator, till he came to Florida. 
The provisions now failing, and a mutiny breaking out among the mari- 
ners, he returned to England without attempting a settlement or con- 
quest in any part of the new world. In this voyage, Cabot was accom- 
panied by his son Sebastian, and to them is attributed the honor of first 
beholding the continent of North America ; for it was not till the fol- 
lowing year, 1498, that the continent was seen by Columbus. But this 



CABOT. 195 

circumstance is of little importance ; for, as Irving remarks, " when 
Columbus first touched the shore of the western hemisphere, he had 
achieved his enterprise, he had accomplished ail that was necessary to 
his fame ; the great problem was solved ; the New World was dig- 
covered." 

Sebastian Cabot, an eminent navigator, the son of the preceding, was 
born at Bristol. When about twenty years of age he accompanied his 
father in the voyage of 1497, in which the continent of the new world 
was discovered. About the year 1517 he sailed on another voyage of 
discovery, and went to the Brazils, and thence to Hispaniola and Porto 
Rico. Failing in his object of finding a way to the East Indies, he 
returned to England. Having been invited to Spain, where he was 
received in the most respectful manner by King Ferdinand and Queen 
Isabella, he sailed in their service on a voyage of discovery in April 
1525. He visited the coast of Brazil, and entered a great river, to which 
he gave the name of Bio de la Plata. He sailed up this river one hun- 
dred and twenty leagues. After being absent on this expedition a 
number of years, he returned to Spain in the spring of 1531. But he 
was not well received. He made other voyages, of which no particular 
memorials remain. His residence was at the city of Seville. His em- 
ployment in the ofiice of chief pilot was the drawing of charts, on which 
he delineated all the new discoveries made by himself and others ; and, 
by his ofiice, he was entrusted with the reviewing of all projects for dis- 
covery. His character is said to have been gentle, friendly, and social, 
though in his voyages some instances of injustice towards the natives, 
and of severity towards his mariners, are recorded. In his advanced 
age he returned to England and resided at Bristol. He received a pen- 
sion from Edward VI., and was appointed governor of a company of 
merchants, associated for the purpose of making discoveries. He had a 
strong persuasion that a passage might be found to China by the north- 
east. By his means a' trade was commenced with Russia, which gave 
rise to the Russian company. The last account of him is, that in 1556, 
when the company were sending out a vessel for discovery, he made a 
visit on board. " The good old gentleman, Master Cabota," says the 



196 THE GRANARY BURIAL GROUND. 

journal of the voyage in Hakluyt, " gave to the poor most liberal alms, 
wishing them to pray for the good fortune and prosperous success of our 
pinnace. And then, at the sign of St. Christopher, he and his ft lends 
banqueted, and for very joy that he had to see the towardness of our 
intended discovery, he entered into the dance himself among the rest of 
the young and lusty company ; which being ended, he and his friends 
departed, most gently commending us to the governance of Almighty 
God." He died, it is believed, in 1557, aged eighty years. He was one 
of the most extraordinary men of the age in which he lived. There is 
preserved in Hakluyt a complete set of instructions, drawn and signed 
by Cabot, for the direction of the voyage to Cathay in China, which 
affords the clearest proof of his sagacity. It is supposed that he was the 
first who noticed the variation of the magnetic needle, and he published 
" Navigatione Nolle Parte Settentrionale," Venice, 1583, folio. He 
published also a large map, which was engraved by Clement Adams, 
and hung up in the gallery at Whitehall ; and on this map was inscribed 
a Latin account of the discovery of Newfoundland. 



INSCRIPTIONS. , 197 

IN MEMORY OF 
DEACON JOHN ELIOT, 
WHO DIED NOV'R 14TH, 1T71, /ETATIS 79. 

ALSO, 

MRS. SARAH, 

WIFE OF DEACON JOHN ELIOT, 
WHO DIED SEPT. 6TH, 1765, AGED 60. 



WIFE OF DEACON JOHN ELIOT, 
WHO DIED NOV'R 26TH, 1761, AGED 46 YEARS. 



HERE LYETH YE .BODY OF 

MRS. MARY MOVLD, 

WIFE TO CAPT. 8AMVIL MOVLD, AGED 38 YEARS, 
DIED JUNE YE 21tS, 1709. 



HERE LYES YE BODY OF 

MRS. ANN, 

WIFE TO MR. JOHN ASHLEY, 
DEc'd APRIL YE 16tH, 1736, IN YE 25tH YEAR OF HER AGE. 



198 THE GRANARY BURIAL GROUND. 

TO THE MEMORY OF 

MR. WILLIAM WARDEN, PRINTER, 
OBIIT MARCH 18TH, 1786, AGED 25. 

WILLIAM, THY MOTHER CONSECRATES THIS STONE, 
A MARK OF FRIENDSHIP AND OF LOVE SINCERE; 

WHILE IN HER MEMORY EVER THOU WILT BLOOM, 
AND IN HER HEART FOR EVER WILT BE DEAR. 

WHILE PRIVATE FRIENDS DEPLORE THEIR HEAVY LOSS, 
THE PUBLICK AT THY DEATH THEIR GRIEF DISPLAY; 

THE VSEFUL PRESS NO LONGER FROM THY HAND 

SHALL TO THE LISTENING WORLD THE TIPE CONVEY. 

YET, WHILE WE MOURN, PERMIT THE BRINY TEAR 
TO WET THY ASHES, MOULDERING IN THE DUST ; 

THOUGH SNATCH'd BY CRUEL DEATH IN EARLY YEARS, 
TO heaven's BLEST REALMS WITH SOLID HOPE WE TRUST. 



HERE LIES BURIED THE BODY OF 

MR. BENJAMIN PARKER, MERCH'T, 

WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE 

THE 14th day OF NOVEMBER, 1760, 

AGED 54 YEARS. 



INSCKIPTIONS. 199 

*ERE LIES THE ***Y OF 

MR. *ALTER ROSS, 

DIED DEc'r 10, 1751, AGED 21 YEARS. 



IN MEMORY OF 

CAPT. SAMUEL DASHWOOD, 
WHO DIED feb'ry 15th, 1792, 

AGED 65 YEARS. 



MASONIC EMBLEMS. 
HERE LIES BURIED THE BODY OP 

MR. GERSHOM FLAGG, 

WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE THE 23d DAY OF MARCH, MDCCLXXI- 
AGED 66. 

TO LIMITS FIx'd OUR DESTINED COURSE WE BEND, 
AND WITH RESISTLESS HASTE, TO DEATh's PALE EMPIRE TEND j 
FROM SCENE TO SCENE OUR SHIFTING MOMENTS GO, 
AND THEN RETURN THE GROUND THE DUST WE OWE. 
VIRTUE ALONE UNMOVED CAN BEAR THE CALL, 
AND FACE THE STROKE THAT MAKES ALL NATURE FALL. 
[Note.] The above monument stands 49 feet southeast of the Franklin Monu- 
ment. 



MR. JEAN CHILD. 



CHILD. 

Robert Chii.d, a physician, was educated at Padua, and came to 
Massachusetts as early as 1644. His object was to explore the mines 
of this country. In 1646 he and others caused disturbance in the colony 
by a petition supposed to have originated with William Vassall, in which 
he complained that the fundamental laws of England were disregarded, 
and that freeborn Englishmen, if not members of one of the churches, 
were denied civil privileges and debarred from Christian ordinances. 
He prayed for redress, and threatened to apply to Parliament. He was 
summoned before the court, and accused of " false and scandalous pas- 
sages," &c., and fined fifty pounds. His trial is related by Winthrop. 
When he was about to proceed to England with his complaint, he was 
apprehended, and suffered a long imprisonment. His brother. Major 
John Child, of England, in his indignation, published a pamphlet, enti- 
tled, " New England's Jonas cast up at London," containing Child's peti- 
tion to the court, &c., 1647. This was answered by Winslow in the " Sala- 
mander," alluding to Vassall as " a man never at rest but when he was 
in the fire of contention." The reason of the title of " Jonas " was this, 
as we learn from the paper : when the ship in which Vassall proceeded 
to England in 1646, was about to sail. Cotton, iu his Thursday lecture, 
said, that writings carried to England against this country, would be as 



CHILD. 201 

Jonas in the ship, and advised the shipmaster, in case of a storm, to 
search the chests and throw over any such Jonas. 

There was a storm ; a good woman at midnight entreated Thomas 
Fowle if he had a petition to give it to her. He gave her, not the peti- 
tion to Parliament, but a copy of the petition to the General Court. 
This was thrown overboard ; yet a copy of the same, and a petition to 
Parliament were safely cast up at London. — Winthrop; 2 Hist. Col 
iv. 107-120. 

Ephraim Child, of Watertown, was admitted freeman in 1631 ; he 
came to New England in 1630. He was elected Representative to the 
Great and General Court in the years 1635, 1646, 1649, 1650, and from 
1652 to 1662, excepting 1653 and 1658. He was a deacon of the 
church, and died Feb. 13, 1663, aged 70. Twelve of the name, and 
seven spelling it Childs, had graduated at the N. E. Colleges in 1826. 

Joseph, of Massachusetts, was admitted freeman in 1654. 

William was admitted freeman in 1634. — Farmer''s Gen. Reg. 

Timothy Childs, M.D., a physician of Pittsfield, Mass., and a patriot 
of the Revolution, was born at Deerfield in February, 1748, and passed 
several years at Harvard College. Having studied physic under Dr. 
Williams, he commenced the practice at Pittsfield in 1771. In the 
political controversy with Great Britain he engaged with zeal. In 1774 
he was chairman of a committee of the town to petition the Justice of 
the Court of Common Pleas to stay all proceedings till certain oppres- 
sive acts of Parliament should be repealed. When the news of the 
battle of Lexington was received, be marched to Boston with a company 
of minute men, in which he was enrolled in the preceding year. Being 
soon appointed surgeon of Col. Patterson's regiment, he accompanied 
the army to New York, and thence to Montreal, In 1777 he returned 
to his practice in Pittsfield, in which he continued till his death. For 
several years he was a Representative in the General Court, and also a 
Senator. In his politics he warmly supported the republican party, 
which came into power with the accession of Mr. Jefferson to the Pres- 
idency in 1801. He died February 25, 1821, aged seventy-three. Till 
within a few days of his death he attended to the active duties of his 



202 THE GRANARY BURIAL GROUND. 

profession, in which he was eminent. Great and general confidence was 
reposed in his skill. He had always been the supporter of religious 
institutions, though not a professor of religion : in his last sickness he 
earnestly besought the Divine mercy, and spoke of the blood and 
righteousness of Christ as the only hope of a sinner. — Thatcher^s Med. 
Biog. ; Hist Bei'kshire, 380. 



PEMBERTON. 

James Pemberton came over as early as 1630, and requested to be 
aade freeman October 19, 1630. 

James, of Newbury and Boston, was admitted freeman 1648. His 
sons were : John, born at Newbury, February 16, 1648 ; Thomas, born 
1652, died 1693 ; Joseph, born 1655 — the two last at Boston, where he 
probably died, October 11, 1696. 

John, of Boston, was admitted freeman May 18, 1631. John, of 
Boston, was admitted freeman 1634 — was a member of the church, from 
which he was dismissed to Newbury in 1649. 

Rev. Ebenczer Pemberton, minister in Boston, the son of James P., 
one of the founders of the " Old South " church, graduated at Harvard 
College in 1691, and was afterward a tutor in that seminary. He died 
February 13, 1717, aged 44. His wife, Mary Clark, survived him, and 
married Henry Lloyd, the father of Dr. Lloyd. He left one son and 
three daughters. He was a very eminent preacher. He wrote in style 
strong and argumentative, and eloquent. With great powers of mind 
and extensive learning, he united a zeal which flamed. His passions, 
when excited, were impetuous and violent; but when free from the 
excitement of any unpleasant circumstance, he was mild and soft. The 
talent of reasoning he possessed in a high degree, and he was a master 
of speech. He was a faithful servant of Jesus Christ, preaching the 
gospel with zeal, and exhibiting in his life the Christian virtues. In 
prayer he was copious and fervent. His sermons were illuminating, 
practical, and pathetic ; delivered with very uncommon fervor. To- 



204 THE GKANAEY BURIAL GROUND. 

wards the close of his life he was afflicted with much pain • but, under 
his weakness and infirmity, he was enabled to do much for the honor of 
his Master and the good of his brethren. His election sermon, preached 
in 1710, entitled, " The Divine Original and Dignity of Government 
Asserted and an Advantageous Prospect of the Kuler's Mortality Re- 
commended," is much and justly celebrated. It is reprinted in a volume 
of sermons which was published in 1727. 

Ebenezer Pemberton, D.D., minister in Boston, the son of the pre- 
ceding, was graduated at Harvard College in 1721. After he began to 
preach he was invited in April, 1727, by the Presbyterian Church, in 
New York, to succeed Mr. Anderson, the first minister, with the request 
that he would be ordained in Boston. Through his benevolent exertions 
the congregation was greatly increased, so as to be able to build an edi- 
fice of stone in 1748. In 1750, A. Gumming, afterwards minister in 
Boston, was settled as his colleague ; but both were dismissed about the 
year 1753 — the former on account of indisposition, and Mr. Pemberton 
through trifling contentions, kindled by ignorance and bigotry. He was 
succeeded by Mr. Bostwick. Being installed minister of the new brick 
church in Boston, March 6, 1754, as successor of Mr. Welsteed, he 
continued in that place till his death, Sept. 9, 1777, aged seventy-two. 
Dr. Lathrop's society, whose meeting-house had been destroyed by the 
British, united with Mr. Pemberton's in 1779. He was a man of a de- 
votional spirit, who was zealous and respectable in his ministerial work. 

He published a sermon before the Synod, 1731 ; before the Commis- 
sioners of the Synod, 1735; sermons on several subjects, 8vo., 1738; 
Practical Discourses on Various Texts, 12mo. Boston, 1741 ; on the 
Death of Dr. Nicoll, 1743 ; on Mr. Whitefield, 1770 ; at the Ordination 
of Mr. Brainerd, 1744; of J. Story, 1771; Artillery Election Sermon, 
1756 ; Election Sermon, 1757 ; Salvation by Grace Through Faith, in 
eight sermons, 1774. 



HERE LYES YE BODY OF 

MRS. MARY TRASK, 

WIFE OF MR. ELIAS TRASK. SHE DIED 

SEPT. YE 23D, 1743, 

IN YE 33D YEAR OF HER AGE. 



T K A S K . 

William Trask came to New England with Governor Endecott, 
and arrived at Salem, September 1628 ; requested to be made freeman 
19th October, 1630 ; was a captain, and represented Salem five years, 
from 1635 to 1689. He died in 1666, and was buried under arms, 
leaving children — Mary, born, 1637 ; William, baptized September 19, 
1640 ; Susan, Mary, and John. — Prince, i. Annals, 174 ; Felt, Annals, 
Salem, 227. 



206 



THE GRANARY BURIAL GROUND. 



HERE LYES BURIED THE BODY OF 

MR. ANDREW ELIOT, 

WHO EXCHANGED THIS LIFE FOR A 

BETTER 

MAROH 28th, 1749, ^TATIS 66. 



MRS. RUTH ELIOT, 

RELICT OF 

MR. ANDREW ELIOT, 

DIED SEPTEMBER 26, 1760, 

^TAT 85. 



HERE LIETH BURIED YE BODY OF 

MR. JOHN DOWNING, 

AGED ABOUT 53 YEARS, 

DEC'D APRIL YE 29, 1694. 



-*: 



I BARGAm'D WITH CHRIST, FOR ROOM BELOW, 
HE GRANTS A MANSION IN HIS UPPER STORIE J 

FOR GOD GIVES MORE THAN WE DO ASK OR KNOW, 
INSTEAD OF GRACE, UNINTERUPTED GLORIE. 



MEMENTO MORI, FUGIT MORA. 
HERE LYES YE BODY OF 

GILBEART COLSWORTHY, 

WHO DECEASED SEPTEMBER YE 24TH, 1710, 
IN YE 67 YEAR OF HIS AGE. 
[Note.] This stone stands 18 feet west of Franklin's Monument. 



INSCRIPTIONS. 207 

TOMB. . 
COAT OF ARMS. 
HERE LYES INTERED YE BODY OF 

MARY TU***** 

RELICT OF JOHN TUTHILL, 

AGED 67 YEARS, 

WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE SEPTEMBER YE 19, 1705. 

HERE LYETH INTERED YE BODY OF 

* * * THOMAS HUBBART, 

WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE YE 7tH DAY OF NOV'r, * * * * 
IN YE 64 YEAR OF HIS AGE. 



HERE LYES INTERED THE BODY OF 



MRS. MARY. 



OF DEACON THOMAS 



*#*##** 



WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE AUGUST ' 
ANMO DOMINI 1720, 
IN THE * * YEAR OF HER AGE. 



[Here is the mouth of the tomb belonging to the] 

HON'eLE JOHN OSBORNE, ESQ. 



208 THE GRANAKY BURIAL GROUND. 

TOMB OF 

WILLIAM DOWNS CHEEVER, 

REPAIRED BY 

JOHN DERBY IN 



'J 

RESTORED BY 



GEORGE CHEYNE SHATTUCK, 

1852. 



IN MEMORY OF 

*** MARY GILES, 

GRANDDAUGHTER OF THE LATE WILLIAM WARLAND, DEC'D, 
WHO DIED JUNE 27, 1791, AGED 20 YEARS. 

" THE SWEET REMEMBRANCE OF THE JUST, 

" SHALL FLOURISH WHEN THEY SLEEP IN DUST." 



TO THE MEMORY OF 

NATHAN ABRAHAM, 

SON OF MR. NATHAN AND MRS. ELISA ABRAHAM, 
DIED 16tH MAY, 1766, AGED 22 MONTHS. 



MRS. REBECCA GEORGUS. 



INSCRIPTIONS. 
HERE LIES BURIED THE BODY OF 

MR. THOMAS ANDREWS, 

DIED JUNE YE 2d, 1752, JE. 35. 



HERE LYES YE BODY OP 

AM* MOORCOCK, 

WIFE OF NICHOLAS MOORCOCK, 

AGED 59 YEARS AND 2 MO. 

DEc'd OCT. YE 13, 1721, 

AND 4 CHILDREN AND 2 GRANDCHILDREN. 



HERE LYES YE BODY OF 

W ILLI AM LOWELL, 

aged 53 years and 6 mo. 
dec'd august ye 3d, 1736 



HERE LYES YE BODY OF 

MRS. MARY AMOS 

WIFE TO MR. DANIEL AMOS, 
DIED JUNE YE 14tH, 1750, 
AGED 36 YEARS. 
SHE WAS A VIRTUOUS WIFE AND KIND 

14 



210 THE GKANAKY BURIAL GROUND. 

HERE LYES BURIED THE BODY OF 

MR. JOHN PINCKNEY, 

AGED 54 YEARS, 

dec'd OCT. YE 25, 1738 



LIEVT. GEORG* SHORTER, 

AG * * ABOVT 50 YEARS, DYED AUGVST YE IST, 1711. 



IN MEMORY OF 

DANIEL JONES, JUN'R., A. M., 

WHO HAVING BEEN EARLY DEPRIVED OF A DISTINGUISHED GENIUS 

BY DISEASE OF BODY, 

MADE A HAPPY EXIT AUG. 23d, 1779, 

IN THE 29tH YEAR OF HIS AGE. 

HERE, PENSIVE READER, MAKE A MOMENt's PAUSE, 

THINK HOW PRECIOUS EVERY HUMAN JOY, 
SEE nature's BLOOM DISROb'd BY NATURE's CAUSE, 

AND DEATH RELEASING WHAT IT CAn't DESTROY. 

" THANKS BE TO GOD WHO GIVETH US THE VICTORY, THROUGH 
OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST." 



INSCRIPTIONS. 211 

HERE LIES THE BODY OP 

THOMAS READ, 

SON OF MR. JOHN AND MRS. HANNAH READ, 

WHO DIED OCT. 8th, 1765, 

AGED 5 YEARS AND 6 MONTHS. 



HERE LYES YE BODY OF 

MRS. SARAH MAHONEY, 

DAU'r of MR. CAIN MAHONEY, OF MARBLEHEAD, 

AGED 26 YEARS, 

DIED NOV. 29, 1734. 



SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF 

MRS. ANN BARBARA BENDER, 

WHO DIED SEPTEMBER 12TH, 1794, 

AGED 48 YEARS. 

WHILE WEEPING FRIENDS BEND ORE THE SILENT TOMB, 
RECOUNT HER VIRTUES AND THEIR LOSS DEPLORE; 

faith's PIERCING EYES DART THROUGH THE GLOOM, \ 

AND HAIL HER BLEST WHERE TEARS SHALL FLOW NO MORE. 



PETER FANEUIL, 

AND THE CRADLE OF LIBERTY. 

One may as successfully search for that identical peck of pickled 
peppers that Peter Piper picked, as for the original hall that Peter 
Faneuil built. Like Rachel's first-born, it is not. After all the repara- 
tions, and changes, and hard hammerings, she has undergone, we may as 
well search within the walls of Old Ironsides for those very ribs of live 
oak which, some fifty years ago, were launched in the body of the 
frigate Constitution. 

In the olden time, the market-men, like the mourners, went " about 
the streets." The inhabitants were served at their doors. As early as 
1634, Gov. Winthrop, in his journal, speaks of a market which was 
kept in Boston, " on Thursday, the fifth day of the week." This weekly 
market on the fifth day is mentioned by Douglass as of 1639. (Vol. I. page 
434.) This, I think, refers only to a gathering of sellers and buyers at 
one spot, and not to any " visible temple " for storage and shelter. 
Citizens differed as to the best method of getting their provant. Some 
preferred the old mode, as it was supposed to save time ; others were in 
favor of having a common point, with a covered building. Parties 
were formed ; the citizens waxed wroth, and quarrelled about their meat 
like angry dogs. Those who were in favor of market-houses prevailed. 
Three were erected ; one at the Old North Square, one where Faneuil 
Hall now stands, and one near Liberty Tree. People were no longer 
supplied at their houses. 

It seems very strange that this sensible arrangement should have led 



PETER FANEUIL. 213 

to violent outrage. The maleeontents assembled together in the night, 
" disguised like clergymen," — the devil, sometimes, assumes this ex- 
terior, — and " totally demolished the centre market-house." This 
occurred about the year 1736-7, or about the time of Andrew Faneuil's 
death. Such is the accoimt of good old Thomas Pemberton. (M. H. 
C. iii. 255.) 

The popular sentiment prevented the reconstruction of the centre 
market-house, till, in 1740, July 14, a town-meeting was held to con- 
sider a petition for this object, from Thomas Palmer and three hundred 
and forty others. At this meeting, it was stated that Peter Faneuil had 
offered, at his own cost, to build a market-house on the town's laud, in 
Dock-square, for the use of the town, if the citizens would legally em- 
power him so to do, place the same under proper regulations, and main- 
tain it for that use. 

An impression has somewhat extensively prevailed that Mr. Faneuil's 
proposal was not courteously received by his fellow- citizens, and that a 
majority of seven only were in favor of it. 

On the contrary, Mr. Faneuil's proposal was received with the most 
ample demonstrations of grateful respect. There- were two questions 
before the meeting : First, shall a vote of thanks be passed to Peter 
Faneuil for his liberal offer ? Secondly, shall we give up the itinerant 
system, and have a market-house on any conditions ? Upon the first 
question, there was but one mind ; on the second, there were two. A 
vote of thanks to Mr. Faneuil was instantly passed, without a dis- 
sentient. But the second question was the vexed question revived, and 
excited the passions of the people. Of seven hundred and twenty-seven 
persons present, three hundred and sixty-seven only voted in favor of 
granting the petition of Palmer and others, giving a majority of seven 
only. 

Accordingly, the work was commenced ; and it was completed Sept. 
10, 1742, " on which day," says Dr. Snow, " Mr. Samuel Ruggles, who 
was employed in building the market-house, waited on the selectmen, 
by order of P. Faneuil, Esq., and delivered them the key of said 
house." 



214 THE GRANAKY BURIAL GROUND. 

Peter was a magnificent fellow. An antiquarian friend, to whom the 
fancy has lineally descended through a line of highly respectable anti- 
quarian ancestors, informs me that his father handed down to him a 
tradition which is certainly plausible. It runs thus : While the market- 
house was in progress, — ^probably on paper, — it was suggested to Peter 
that, with very little additional expense, a splendid town-hall might be 
constructed over it. Peter's heart was quite as roomy as the market- 
house and town-hall together, and he cheerfully embraced the sugges- 
tion. The tradition goes a little further. When the cost was summed 
up, Peter scolded — a little. Very likely. Mr. Peter Paneuil was not 
an exception, I presume, to the common rule. 

The keys, as I have stated, were presented to the town Sept. 10, 
1742, with all that courtesy, doubtless, for which he was remarkable. 
Peter's relatives and connections are somewhat numerous. The de- 
scendants of Benjamin, his brother, are scattered over the country. It 
will be equally grateful to them and honorable to our forefathers, to 
exhibit a portion of the record. 

Sept. 13, 1742, at a meeting, in the new hall, a vote of thanks was 
moved by the Hon. John Jeffries, uncle of the late Dr. John Jeffries. 
In this vote, it is stated that, whereas Peter Faneuil has, " at a very 
great expense, erected a noble structure, far exceeding his first proposal, 
inasmuch as it contains not only a large and sufficient accommodation 
for a market-place, but a spacious and most beautiful town-hall over it, 
and several other convenient rooms which may prove very beneficial to 
the town for offices or otherwise : as the said building being now finished, 
he has delivered possession thereof to the selectmen for the use of the 
town : it is therefore voted that the town do, with the utmost gratitude, 
receive and accept this most generous and noble benefaction, for the use 
and intentions it is designed for; and do appoint the Hon. Thomas 
Gushing, Esquire, the moderator of this meeting, the Hon. Adam Win- 
throp, Edward Hutchinson, Ezekiel Lewis, and Samuel Waldo, Esquires, 
Thomas Hutchinson, Esq., the selectmen and representatives of the 
town of Boston, the Hon. Jacob Wendell, James Bowdoin, Esq., 



PETER FANEUIL. 215 

Andrew Oliver, Esq., Captain Nathaniel Cunningham, Peter Chardon, 
Esq., and Mr. Charles Apthorp, to wait upon Peter Faneuil, Esq., and 
in the name of the town to render him their most hearty thanks for so 
bountiful a gift, with their prayers that this and other expressions of his 
bounty and charity may be abundantly recompensed with the Divine 



In addition to this vote, the citizens passed another, that the hall 
should be called Faneuil Hall for ever, and that the portrait of Faneuil 
should be painted at full length and placed therein. On the 14th 
of March, 1744, a vote was passed " to purchase the Faneuil arms, 
carved and gilt by Moses Deshon, to be fixed in the hall." 

Pemberton says : " Previous to the Revolution, the portraits of Mr. 
Faneuil, Gen. Conway and Col. Barre, were procured by the town, and 
hung up in the Hall. It is supposed they were carried off by the 
British." The portrait of Faneuil at present in the Hall was painted by 
Henry Sargent, from the portrait presented to the Massachusetts 
Historical Society by Miss Jones, a grandchild of Peter's sister, Mary 
Ann. 

The original building was but half the width of the present, and 
but two stories high. The Hall could contain but one thousand persons. 
In the memorable fire of Tuesday, Jan. 13, 1761, Faneuil Hall was 
destroyed, and nothing left standing but the walls. On the 23d of the 
following March, the town voted to rebuild, and the State authorized a 
lottery to meet the expense. There were several classes. A ticket of 
the seventh class lies before me, bearing date March, 1767, with the 
spacious autograph of John Hancock at the bottom. 

The building retained its primitive proportions till 1806, when, the 
occasions of the public requiring its enlargement, its width was increased 
from forty to eighty feet, and a third story added. A very simple rule 
may be furnished for those who would compare the size of the present 
building with that of the genuine Peter Faneuil Hall. Take a north- 
east view of the Hall. There are seven windows before you, in each 
story. Run a perpendicular line from the ground through the centre of 



216 THE GEANAKY BURIAL GROUND. 

the middle window to the top of the belt, at the bottom of the third 
story ; carry a straight line from that point nearly to the top of the 
second window, on the right, in the third story. That point is the apex 
of the old pediment. From that point, draw the corresponding roof line 
down to the belt at the corner, and you hare a profile of the ancient 
structure, all of which is well exhibited by Dr. Snow on the plan in his 
history of Boston. — A Sexton of the Old School. 



INSCRIPTIONS. 

AR**TON, 

SON TO NATh'l and PRIS8ILLA A. BIRD, 

AGED 2 YEARS, 

DIED JAN. YE 17, 1744. 



217 



MARY BIRD, 

DAUGHTER TO MR. NATHANIEL AND MRS. PRISSILLA BIRD, 

AGED 3 WEEKS, 

DIED NOV. YE IOtH, 1741. 



MARY, 

DAUGHTER TO MR. NATHANIEL AND MRS. PRISSILLA BIRD, 
AGED 6 MONTHS, DIED DEc'r 25tH, 1738. 



THOMAS PITCARNE, 

of scotland, 
dec'd may ye IOth, 1742, in ye 18th year of his age. 



HERE LYES YE BODY OF 

MR. JOHN MANNING, 

AGED ABOUT 60 YEARS, DEc'd FEB. YE 3d, 1726-7. 



218 THE GRANARY BURIAL GROUND, 

[Note.] The following was politely handed to us by Mr. Wm. B. Trask ; it was 
copied from an ancient monument in the Sudbury Burial Ground. 

V CAPT. SAMUEL WADSWORTH, 

OF MILTON, HIS LIEU'T SHARP OF 

BROOKLIN, CAPT. BROCKLEBANK 

OF ROWLEY, WITH ABOUT 

TWENTY-SIX OTHER SOULD'RS 

FIGHTING FOR YE DEFENCE OF 

THEIR COUNTRY, 

WERE SLAIN 

BY YE INDIAN ENEMY APRIL 18TH, 

1676, & LYE BURIED IN THIS PLACE. 



HERE LYES BUPJED THE BODY OF 

THOMAS RUCK,JUN'R, 

AGED 34 YEARS, 
DIED MAY YE 7tH, 1744. 



HANNAH GOULD, 

YE DAUGHTER TO MR. THOMAS AND MRS. HANNAH GOULD, 
AGED 5 MONTHS, DIED MARCH 16tH, 1744. 



INSCRIPTIONS. 219 

HERE LYES THE BODY OF 

MR. JOSEPH FITCH, JUN'R, 

AGED 27 YEARS, 

DIED oct'r ye 31st, 1748. 



HERE LIES BURIED THE BODY OF 

MR. JONATHAN BELCHER, 

who died APRIL YE 26tii, 1764, 

AGED 27 YEARS & 10 MO. 

BLESSED ARE THEY THAT DIE IN THE LORD, THEY REST 

FROM THEIR LABOURS & THEIR WORKS 

DO FOLLOW THEM. 



HERE LIES INTERED THE BODY OF 

MRS. MARTHA JACKSON, 

WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE OCt'r THE 2d, 1766, 
AGED 56 YEARS. 

ALSO, 
FIVE OF HER CHILDREN. 



220 THE GRANAKY BURIAL GROUND. 

HERE LIES YE BODY OF 

ANNE HARDEN, 

WIFE TO JOHN HARDEN, 

AGED 80 YEARS, 

DIED JUNE YE 6TH, 1722. 



ELISA ELIAS, 

DAU. TO MR. JOHN & MRS. ELISABETH ELIAS, 
DIED AUG. 25, 1752, AGED 13 MONTHS. 



HERE LYES YE BODY OF 

MR. JOHN LANE, 

AGED 43 YEARS, 
DEc'd DECEMBER YE 2d, 1736. 



MRS. MARGARET LOCKE, 

1736. 



CHRISTOPHER, 

SON TO JOHN & REBECCA KILBY, 
AGED 4 YEARS AND 6 MO., DIED JUNE YE 23d, 1698. 



INSCKIPTIONS. 221 

JOHN, 

SON TO EBENESER & BATHSHEBA KILBY, 

AGED 12 MONTHS, 

DEC'd SEPT. YE 4, 1735. 



HERE LYES THE BODY OF 

MR. THOMAS KILBEY, 

AGED 42 YEARS, DEC'd SEPT. YE 26tH, 1732. 



CAPT. JOHN DECOSTER, 
1773. 



HERE LYES YE BODY OF 

CAPT, JONATHAN ROUSE, 

AGED 56 YEARS, 

WHO dec'd decem'r ye 30, 1732. 



HERE LYES YE BODY OF 

MRS. SARAH DECOSTER, 

THE WIFE OF MR. JOHN DECOSTER, 
SHE DIED JULY YE 20tH, 1762, AGED 51 YEARS. 



222 



BUNKEK HILL. 




'^ 



ERECTED A.D. 1794, BY KING SOLOMON'S LODGE OF FREE 

MASONS, CONSTITUTED AT CHARLESTOWN, 1783, 

IN MEMORY OF 

MAJOR GENERAL WARREN, 

AND HIS ASSOCIATES, 
WHO WERE SLAIN ON THIS MEMORABLE SPOT, 
JUNE 17, 1775. 

" Noue but they who set a just value upon tlie blessings of liberty are worthy 

to enjoy her. 

In vain we toiled, in vain we fought, we bled in vain, if you, our offspring, want 

valor to repel the assaults of her invaders ! " 

CHARLESTOWN SETTLED, 1628: BURNT, 1775; REBUILT, 1776. 

THE ENCLOSED LAND GIVEN BY HON. JAMES RUSSELL. 



IN THIS TOMB 
ARE DEPOSITED THE EARTHLY REMAINS OF 

MAJOR GENERAL JOSEPH WARREN, 

WHO WAS KILLED 

IN THE BATTLE OF BUNKER HILL, 

ON THE 17TH JUNE, 1775. 

Note. — The above is from St. Paul's church.* 



WARREN. 



ANCESTRY OF GENEEAL WARREN OF BUNKER HILL. 

[From Loring's Hundred Boston Orators.] 

The name of Warren appears on the Roll of Battle Abbey, as being 
of those engaged in the Battle of Hastings, under William the Con- 
queror, Oct. 14, 1066. It appears also in Doomsday Book, published in 
1081. William de Warrene, the first of the name according to Dun- 
can's Dukes of Normandy, related to Duke William on the side of his 
mother, who was niece to the Duchess Gouner, took his name from the 
fief of Varenne, or Warrene, in the district of St. Aub-in-le-Cauf. 
Warrene received from the Conqueror two hundred and ninety-eight 
manors, and in 1073 he was adjoined to Richard de Bienfaite as Grand 
Justiciary of England. He was created Earl of Surrey, by William 

* It should be stated that the remains of General Warren were formerly deposited 
in the tomb of Stephen Minot, Esq., a merchant of Boston, and father of Hon. George 
Richards Minot, who was at that period a student in Harvard College, and in 1824 
were removed to St. Paul's Chtirch. 



224 THE GEANAKY BURIAL GROUND. 

Rufus, in 1089, and died shortly afterwards. He was buried in the 
Abbey of Lewes, in Sussex, which he had founded. 

The ancestry of General Joseph Warren has long been a subject of 
doubtful speculation, as it could not be traced to the ancient families 
either of Plymouth or Watertown. After careful research, we believe 
it traceable to the public records of Boston. Doubtless the ancestor of 
this family was Peter "Warren, a mariner, who, according to Suffolk 
Deeds, purchased an estate of Theodore Atkinson, of Boston, March 8, 
1659, " situated on the south side of Boston, next the water-side, oppo- 
site and against Dorchester Neck." This was a part of ancient Matta- 
pan, now South Boston, On his decease, he gave his dwelling-house 
and land to his widow Esther, for and during her natural life, in case 
she continue a widow, and not otherwise. In case she happen to marry 
again, the estate should revert to his son Joseph ; or, at her decease, if 
a widow, he bequeathed the same to him. He married three times, and 
died at Boston, Nov. 15, 1704, aged 76 years. His will is in Suffolk 
Probate. His son Joseph, according to Suffolk Deeds, conveyed, April 
15, 1714, this estate to Henry Hill, distiller, for eighty pounds, with the 
reserve, that his widowed mother Esther should have a life occupancy, 
and profits and benefits of the same. It was located in Boston, at the 
south part of the town, and bounded southerly at the front by Essex- 
street, fifty-seven feet ; westerly by the land of Isaac Goose, eighty-one 
feet ; northerly by the land of Henry Cole, thirty-one feet ; easterly by 
the land of Whitman, eighty-four feet ; — with the buildings, wells, 
water-courses, &c. A distillery has long been located on this estate, 
bounded by South street, and is improved by William E. French. This 
was doubtless the ancestral residence. We find no conveyance of real 
estate to Peter Warren at any other period. 

Sarah, the first wife of Peter Warren, was .admitted to the Old 
South Church, by dismission. May 22, 1670. His second wife, Hannah, 
was received in the same church, by dismission also, April 30, 1675 ; 
and his third wife, Esther, was admitted to that church, also by dismis- 
sion, Oct. 11, 1687. 

The baptisms of the children are on the records of the Old South 



WARREN. 225 

Church, and correspond with the births on the records of Boston, as 
follows : Peter Warren married Sarah, a daughter of Robert Tucker, 
of Dorchester, Aug. 1, 1660, by whom he had John, born Sept. 8, 1661; 
Joseph, born Feb. 19, 1662 ; Benjamin, born July 25, 1665 ; Eliza- 
beth, born Jan. 4, 1667 ; Robert, born Dec. 14, 1670 ; Ebenezer, born 
Feb. 11, 1672; Peter, born April 20, 1676 ; Hannah, by his wife Han- 
nah, born May 19, 1680; Mary, born Nov. 24, 1683; Robert, born 
Dec. 24, 1684. 

Joseph, the second son of Peter, who, according to Suffolk Deeds, 
was a housewright, married Deborah, a daughter of Samuel Williams, of 
Roxbur}"^, where he settled, and had eight children ; among whom was 
Joseph, born Feb. 2, 1696. He died at Roxbury, July 13, 1729, aged 
66 ; and this corresponds with this Boston record of his birth. His will 
was proved August 1st of that date. 

Joseph, Jr., son of Joseph of Roxbury, married Mary, daughter of 
Dr. Samuel Stevens, of that town, May 29, 1740. He is named, on 
Suffolk Probate, as " gentleman." He was a respectable farmer, and 
was the first person who cultivated an apple, with a fine. blush on one 
side, famous as the Warren Russet. The Boston News-letter thus 
relates the tale of his decease, in a note dated Roxbury, Oct. 25, 1755 : 

" On Wednesday last a sorrowful accident happened here. As Mr. 
Joseph Warren, of this town, was gathering apples from a tree, stand- 
ing upon a ladder at a considerable distance from the ground, he fell 
from thence, broke his neck, and expired in a few moments. He was 
esteemed a man of good understanding, industrious, upright, honest, and 
faithful, — a serious, exemplary Christian, a useful member of society. 
He was generally respected amongst us, and his death is universally 
lamented." 

Joseph, 3d, a son of Joseph, Jr., was born at Roxbury, June 11, 
1741. He graduated at Harvard College, 1759, and was a public- 
school teacher at Roxbury, in 1760. The old mansion in which he was 
born has been demolished, and an exact model of it, made partly of the 
original materials, is retained iu the family of Dr. Brown, who married 
a daughter of Dr. John Warren. A painting of the estate is in the 
15 



226 THE GRANAEY BURIAL GROUND. 

family of Dr. John C. Warren. An elegant stone building has been 
erected on the location. The inscriptions herewith are chiselled on the 
front side of the second story of the edifice ; that on the right hand is 
as follows : 

" On this spot stood the house erected in 1720 by Joseph Warren, 
of Boston, remarkable for being the birthplace of General Joseph War- 
ren, his grandson, who was killed at the Battle of Bunker Hill, June 
17, 1775." The inscription on the left hand is as follows: "John 
Warren, a distinguished physician and anatomist, was also born here. 
The original mansion being in ruins, this house was built by John C. 
Warren, M. D., in 1846, son of the last named, as a permanent memo- 
rial of the spot." The estate is in Warren-street, on Warren-place, 
opposite St. James'-street. 

Warren was ever remarkable for fearless intrepidity. When at 
college, some of his classmates were engaged in a merriment which they 
knew Warren would not approve, and adopted a plan to prevent his 
attendance. They fastened the door of the apartment, which was in the 
upper story of a college building. Warren, finding that he could not 
get in at the door, and perceiving that there was an open window, deter- 
mined to efiect his entrance by that way, from the roof He accord- 
ingly ascended the stairs to the top of the building, and, getting out 
upon the roof, let himself down to the eaves, and thence, by the aid of 
a spout, to a level with the open window, through which he leaped into 
the midst of the conspirators. The spout, which was of wood, was so 
much decayed by time, that it fell to the ground as Warren relaxed his 
hold upon it. His classmates, hearing the crash, rushed to the window, 
and when they perceived the cause, loudly congratulated him upon the 
escape. He coolly remarked that the spout had retained its position 
just long enough to serve his purpose ; and, without further notice of 
the accident, proceeded to remonstrate with them on the mischief they 
intended to perpetrate, which had the desired eflFect. 

In the period of the Bevolution a gallows was erected on the Neck, 
near Roxbury, for the public execution of criminals. One day, when 
he was passing the spot, he met three British ofiicers, one of whom 



WARREN. 227 

called to him, saying, " Go on, "Warren ; you will soon come to the gal- 
lows ! " It was very evident they meant to insult him, as they burst 
into a loud laugh as soon as it was uttered. Warren was not a man to 
submit to an insult from any one, least af all from them. He immedi- 
ately turned back, walked up to them, and calmly requested to know 
which of them had thus addressed him. Not one of them had the 
courage to avow his insolence. Finding he could obtain no answer, 
he at last left them, ashamed of themselves and each other, but pleased 
to escape so easily. This is related on the authority of Dr. John C. 
Warren. 

Gen. Warren resided several years in Boston, on the location of the 
present American House, nearly opposite Elm-street. Wired skulls, 
from his anatomical room, were discovered, in excavating the earth, 
about the year 1835. He was a member of Rev. Dr. Cooper's church, 
in Brattle-street, and his pew was located opposite the old southern door, 
in the body of the house, which he selected for the prevention of dis- 
turbance, when abruptly called on for medical aid. 

The late Governor Eustis, who was, in 1774, a student of medicine 
under Warren, relates that, in returning to his dwelling, he passed 
several British ofl&cers in Queen-street, among whom was Col. Wolcott, 
who subsequently became notorious for a paltry insult, in addressing 
General Washington as " Mr. Washington," in a letter on the subject of 
prisoners ; and, as the friends of Warren were then constantly expecting 
that some attempt would be made to seize him by the regulars, Eustis 
stated the circumstance, and advised him not to leave the house. War- 
ren replied, " I have a visit to make to a lady in Cornhill, this evening, 
and I will go at once ; come with me." He then put his pistols in his 
pocket, and they went out. They passed several British officers, with- 
out molestation from them. It was ascertained, the next day, that they 
were watching for two pieces of cannon which had been removed by 
some Bostonians, of which a relation is given in the outline of John 
Hancock. Warren, having his spirit fretted, one day, by some of the 
taunts frequently uttered by British officers, exclaimed, " These fellows 
say we won't fight. By heavens ! I hope I shall die up to my knees in 



228 THE GRANARY BURIAL GROUND. 

blood ! " This was spoken but a few weeks before the Battle of Bunker 
Hill. 

G-en. Warren married Elizabeth, a davighter of the late Dr. Richard 
Hooton, of Boston, Sept. 6, 1764. Their children were Joseph, who 
graduated at Harvard College, in 1786, — died single in 1790 ; Richard, 
who died at twenty-one years of age ; Elizabeth, who was the wife of 
Gen. Arnold Welles ; and Mary, wife of Judge Newcomb, of Green- 
field, who died Feb. 7, 1826. Their son Joseph Warren Newcomb, 
counsellor at Springfield, has two children, the last living descendants. 
The three younger children of Gen. Warren were for a period under the 
care of Miss Mercy ScoUay, of Boston, a lady to whom he was be- 
trothed for a second wife. His wife died April 29, 1773, aged twenty- 
six years. This impressive tribute to the virtues of his lamented 
partner appeared in the Boston Gazette of that year : 
" If fading lilies, when they droop and die, 

Robbed of each charm that pleased the gazing eye, 

With sad regret the grieving mind inspire. 

What, then, when virtue's brightest lamps expire ? 

Ethereal spirits see the systems right. 

But mortal minds demand a clearer sight. 

In spite of reason's philosophic art, 

A tear must fall to indicate the heart. 

Could reason's force disarm the tyrant foe. 

Or cahn the mind that feels the fatal blow. 

No clouded thought had discomposed the mind 

Of him whom Heaven ordained her dearest friend. 

Good sense and modesty with virtue crowned, 

A sober mind, when fortune smiled or frowned ; 

So keen a feeling for a friend distressed. 

She could not bear to see a worm oppressed. 

These virtues fallen enhance the scene of woe. 

Swell the big drops that scarce confinement know, 

And force them down in copious showers to flow. 

But know, thou tyrant Death, thy force is spent, — 

Thine arm is weakened, and thy bow unbent. 

Secured from insults of your guilty train 

Of marshalled slaves, inflict disease and pain. 



WAKKEN. 229 



She rides triumphant on the aerial course, 
To land at pleasure's inexhausted source ; 
Celestial Genii line the heavenly way, 
And guard her passage to the realms of day.' 



[The following memoir is taken from the Monthly Magazine, published in Boston, 
June, 1826, and is the production of Samuel L. Knapp, Esq.] 

Major-General Joseph Warren was born in Roxbury, in 1741. His 
father was a respectable farmer in that place, who had held several mu- 
nicipal offices to the acceptance of his fellow-citizens. Joseph, with 
several of his brothers, was instructed in the elementary branches of 
knowledge at the public grammar school of the town, which was distin- 
guished for its successive instructors of superior attainments. In 1755, 
he entered college, where he sustained the character of a youth of 
talents, fine manners, and of a generous, independent deportment, united 
to great personal courage and perseverance. 

On the 18th of April, 1775, by his agents in Boston, he discovered 
the design of the British commander to seize or destroy our few stores 
at Concord. He instantly despatched several confidential messengers 
to Lexington. The late venerable patriot, Paul Revere, was one of 
them. This gentleman has given a very interesting account of the 
difficulties he encountered in the discharge of this duty. The alarm 
was given, and the militia, burning with resentment, were, at daybreak 
on the 19th, on the road to repel insult and aggression. The drama 
was opened about sunrise, within a few yards of the house of God, in 
Lexington. Warren hastened to the field of action, in the full ardor of 
his soul, and shared the dangers of the day. While pressing on the 
enemy, a musket ball took off a lock of his hair close to his ear. The 
lock was rolled and pinned after the fashion of that day, and considera- 
ble force must have been necessary to have cut it away. The people 
were delighted with his cool, collected bravery, and already considered 
him as a leader, whose gallantry they were to admire and in whose 
talents they were to confide. 



230 THE GEANARY BURIAL GROUND. 

On the 14th of June, 1775, the Provincial Congress of Massachusetts 
made him a Major General of their forces. He was at this time presi- 
dent of the Provincial Congress, having been elected the preceding year 
a member from the town of Boston. 

Several respectable historians have fallen into some errors in describ- 
ing the battle in which he fell, by giving the command of the troops on 
that day to Warren, when he was only a volunteer in the fight. He did 
not arrive on the battle-ground until the enemy had commenced their 
movements for the attack. As soon as he made his appearace on the 
field, the veteran commander of the day, Colonel Prescott, desired to 
act under his directions ; but Warren declined taking any other part 
than that of a volunteer, and added, that he came to learn the art of 
war from an experienced soldier, whose orders he should be happy to 
obey. In the battle, he was armed with a musket, and stood in the 
ranks, now and then changing his place,^ to encourage his fellow-soldiers 
by words and example. When the battle was decided, and our people 
fled, Warren was one of the last who left the breastwork, and was slain 
within a few yards of it, as he was slowly retiring. His death brought 
a sickness to the heart of the community, and the people mourned his 
fall ; not with the convulsive agony of a betrothed virgin over the 
bleeding corpse of her lover, but with the pride of the Spartan mother, 
who, in the intensity of her grief, smiled to see that the wounds whence 
life had flown were on the breast of her son, and was satisfied that he 
had died in defence of his country. 

This eminence has become sacred ground. It contains in its bosom the 
ashes of the brave who died fighting to defend their altars and their homes. 

Within a year after his death, Congress passed the following resolu- 
tion : 

" That a monument be erected to the memory of General Warren, 
in the town of Boston, with the following inscription : * 

* To the lasting honor of the Congress of '76, the above resolution was passed, hut 
after the lapse of three-quarters of a century, we ask, Where is the monument ? A 
petition is now in preparation, to present to the next Congress, praying them to carry 
out the patriotic resolve of their predecessors. — Ed. 



WARREN. 231 

IN HONOR OF 

JOSEPH WARREN, 

MAJOR GENERAL OF MASSACHUSETTS BAY. 

HE DEVOTED HIS LIFE TO THE LIBERTIES OF HIS COUNTRY, 

AND IN BRAVELY DEFENDING THEM, FELL AN 

EARLY VICTIM IN THE 

BATTLE OF BUNKER HILL, 

JUNE 17, 1775. 

THE OONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES, AS AN ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF HIS 

SERVICES AND DISTINGUISHED MERIT, HAVE ERECTED THIS 

MONUMENT TO HIS MEMORY." 



[From Allen's Biographical Dictionary.] 

Major-General Joseph Warren, of the American army, the son of a 
farmer, descended from an ancestor, who was an early settler of Boston. 
He was horn in Roxbury in 1740, and graduated at Harvard College in 
1759. Having studied under Dr. Lloyd, he in a few years became one 
of the most eminent physicians in Boston. But he lived at a period 
when greater objects claimed his attention. He was a bold politician. 
From the year 1768, he was a principal member of a secret meeting or 
caucus in Boston, which had great influence on the concerns of the 
country. In this assembly the plans of defence were matured. After 
the destruction of the tea, it was no longer kept secret. He was twice 
chosen orator on the Anniversary of the Massacre, and his orations 
breathe the energy of a great and daring mind. It was he, who, on the 
evening before the Battle of Lexington, obtained information of the 
intended expedition against Concord, and at ten o'clock at night de- 
spatched an express to Hancock and Adams, who were at Lexington, to 
warn them of their danger. He himself on the next day, the memora- 



232 THE GRANAKY BURIAL GROUND. 

ble loth of April, was very active. After the departure of Hancock to 
Congress, he was chosen President of the Provincial Congress, in his 
place. Four days previous to the Battle of Bunker or Breed's Hill, he 
received his commission of Major-General. When the intrenchments 
were made upon the fatal spot, to encourage the men within the lines, 
he went down to Cambridge, and joined them as a volunteer on the 
eventful day of the battle, June 17th. He did wonders in preserving 
order among the troops. Colonel Prescott commanded the party within 
the lines, and Colonel Stark the men who were without, behind a rail 
fence, and did such amazing execution by a well-directed fire. Just as 
the retreat commenced, a ball struck him on the head, and he died in 
trenches. A female historian of the war, tells us that he chose to die 
rather than be taken prisoner. We are at a loss to know how this can 
be ascertained. We always understood he was killed outright, and had 
not at his own option any of the circumstances of his death. It is true, 
however, that at all times he discovered the greatest fortitude and 
bravery, and as he lived an ornament to his country, his death reflected 
a lustre upon himself, and the cause he so warmly espoused. No per- 
son's fall was ever more regretted, and yet no one could help feeling the 
sentiment, who repeated the line, " Dulce et decorum est pro patria 
mori." 

Thus fell at the age of thirty-five, in the flower of manhood, the 
first victim of rank in the war of the Revolution. In the spring of 
1776, when the British troops left Boston, his body was brought from the 
battle-field, where it had lain undistinguished from his fellow-soldiers, to 
be entombed in a Boston burial ground. The several lodges of Free 
Masons preceded, and thousands of his fellow-citizens followed his 
remains to King's Chapel, where an eloquent orator, a brother-mason, 
pronounced the funeral eulogy. The exordium addressed to the "Illus- 
trious Relics," had a very strong effect upon the auditory. 

General Warren had been Grand Master of Free Masons in North 
America for many years, and all the friends of the craft now highly 
respect his memory. Having said that in private life General Warren 
was amiable, we repeat it, that in person, mind, and manners, he was 



WARREN. 233 

equally well accomplished. He gained the love of those who lived with 
him in habits of intimacy, while the public voice celebrated his virtues. 
He was candid, generous to a fault, and ready to do kind offices to those 
who had different sentiments from his own. 

There were persons not long since living who recollected his polite 
attentions, when they were slighted and woun,ded by others whose minds 
were less liberal, or more corroded with party spirit. 
— . Cui pudor et justitiae soror, 



Incorrupta fides nudaque Veritas. 
Qnando ullum invenient parem ? 
Multis ille bonis flebilis occidit. 

He published an oration in 1772, and another in 1775, commemora- 
tive of the 5th of March, 1770. 



FURTHER NOTICES OF THE WARRENS. 

H. J. 
JOHANNES WARREN, 

BOSTONIENSIS, 

TEMPORIBUS STJI8 ILLUSTRI8, 

KEC POSTERITATl OBLIVISCENDUS. 

BELLO CIVILI SEMPER REI PUBLICO DEDITUS, 
JUVENTUTEM PATRIAE SACRAVIT. 

MEDICUS INTER PRIMOS, 

CHIRURGUS FACILE PRINCEPS, 

NOVANGLI^ 



234 THE GKANARY BURIAL GROUND. 

PRIMAM MEDICINE SCHOLAM, 

IPSIUS LABORIBUS FUNDATAM, 

PER XXX. ANNOS 

DOCTRINA SUSTULIT, 

ELOQDENTIA ILLUMINAVIT. 

QUID VERUM, QUID H O N E S T U M , 

QUID SCIENTI^, QUID BONO PUBLICO PROFUTURUM 

EXEMPLO DOCUIT, 

VIT^ STUDIO PROMOVIT. 

ERGA DEUM PIETATE, 

ERGA HOMINES BENEVOLENTIA SINCERE IMBUTUS, 

SUMMAM SEVERITATEM 

SUMMiE HUMANITATI JUNXIT. 

UNIVERSITATIS HARVARDIAN^ PROFESSOR, 

S0CIETATI8 PHILANTHROPIC^ PR^ESES, 

SOCIETATIS UEDICM MASSACHUSETTENSIS PRiESAS, 

NULLUS ILLI DEFUIT HONOS. 

VITA PERACTA NON DEEST OMNIUM LUCTUS. 

NATUS DIE XXVII. JULII, A. D. MDCCLIII. 

OBIIT DIE IV. APRILUS, A.D. MDCCCXV. 

John Warren, M. D., a physician, brother of Gen. Joseph Warren, 
was born in Koxbury, July 27, 1753, graduated at Harvard College 



WARREN. ■ 235 

1771. Being settled in the practice of physic in Salem, he marched as 
surgeon to the scene of battle at Lexington. He was soon appointed 
hospital surgeon. He went with the army to Long Island and New 
Jersey. In 1777, he was intrusted with the military hospitals of Bos- 
ton, in which post he remained during the war. In 1780, he gave a 
course of dissections, and in 1783, he was appointed professor of anat- 
omy and surgery in the medical school of Cambridge. In 1796, he 
endorsed the notes of a medical friend, who had purchased lands in 
Maine, and in consequence of his failure, was obliged to pay for and 
receive the lands, which caused him immense vexation and great loss of 
property. For years he was subject to an organic disease of the heart ; 
but he died of an inflammation of the lungs, April 4, 1815, aged 61. 
His wife was daughter of Governor Collins. His son. Dr. John 
Collins Warren, succeeded him as professor of surgery and anatomy. 
Dr. Warren was the most eminent surgeon in New England, unless Dr. 
Nathan Smith might be considered equally skilful. As an eloquent 
anatomical lecturer he was unequalled. For industry and temperance 
he was remarkable. Firmly believing the Christian religion, he was not 
regardless of its duties. He attended on the Sabbath public worship, 
and was careful to instruct his family in religious doctrine. He had 
himself been instructed by a pious mother. At times he was subject to 
great depression of spirits, the consequence of afflictions, so that he lost 
the wish to live to old age. He was liberal, generous, charitable in 
private life, and a disinterested, enlightened friend to his country. He 
delivered various public orations and addresses. 

The personal appearance of Dr. John Warren was most preposses- 
sing. He was of about middling stature, and well formed ; his deport- 
ment was agreeable, and his manners, formed in a military school, and 
polished by intercourse with the officers of the French army, were those 
of an accomplished gentleman. An elevated forehead, black eyes, 
aquiline nose, and hair turned up from the forehead, gave an air of 
reflection and dignity, which became a person of his profession and 
character. 

His remains are deposited in a tomb erected for the purpose by his 



236 THE GRANARY BURIAL GROUND. 

family, in the cemetery of St. Paul's Church, in Boston. In the same 
sepulchre rest the relics of his friend and brother. 

Abraham "Warren was of Salem in 1637, perhaps also of Ipswich 
in 1648, and died about 1654. 

Arthur, of Weymouth, had sons ; Arthur, born 1639, and Jacob, 
born Oct. 26, 1642. Jacob, of Chelmsford, 1666. John, of Watertown, 
came to New England 1630, freeman 1631, died Dec. 13, 1667. John, 
of Massachusetts, freeman 1645. Joseph, of Plymouth, 1623. Na- 
thaniel, of Plymouth, 1644. Peter, of Boston, had sons ; John and Ben- 
jamin, born in 1661 and 1665. Richard, one of the first Pilgrims at 
Plymouth, 1620, died 1628. Elizabeth, his widow, died 1673, aged 90. 
James Warren, a patriot of the Revolution, was descended from the 
preceding ; was born 1726, graduated at Harvard College 1745. He 
was for many years an eminent merchant. About 1757, his father died 
and left him a handsome patrimonial estate which had descended from 
Richard,- of Plymouth. He was appointed High Sheriff as successor to 
his father. In May, 1766, he was chosen a member of the General 
Court from Plymouth, and he uniformly supported the rights of the 
Colony. The government, who knew his abilities and feared his opposi- 
tion, tried the influence of promises and of threats upon him, but his 
integrity was not to be corrupted. He was for many years Speaker of 
the House of Representatives. Preferring an active station, in which 
he could serve his country, he refused the ofiice of Lieutenant-governor 
and that of Judge of the Supreme Court, but accepted a seat at the 
Navy Board. At the close of the war he retired from public employ- 
ment, to enjoy domestic ease and leisure. He died at Plymouth, Nov. 
27, 1808. Amidst his public cares he never neglected the more humble 
duties of domestic life or the more exalted claims of religion. His wife 
Mercy, daughter of James Otis, of Barnstable, was born in 1727, and 
died at Plymouth, in Oct. 1814, aged 87. She published several poems, 
also a History of the American Revolution, in 3 vols., 1805. 

Sir John Borlase Warren, an English admiral, employed in the ex- 
pedition to Quiberon, destined to assist the Vendeans, was born at the 
seat of his family at Stapleford, in Nottinghamshire, 1754. After the 



WAEKEN. 237 

Vendean expedition he joined the Brest fleet under Lord Bridport, and 
distinguished himself in 1798 by capturing the French squadron sent to 
invade Ireland. On the conclusion of peace he became a privy coun- 
cillor, and was sent as ambassador to Russia. Died 1822. 

Sir Peter Warren, vice-admiral of the red, was born in Ireland 
1703, and won his laurels by the capture of Louisbourg, and the total 
defeat of a French squadron sent to recover it, 1745-1747. In the 
autumn of the last mentioned year his popularity occasioned his return 
to parliament as member for Westminster. Died 1752. 

Charles Warren, an eminent engraver, was a native of London, and 
for many years held a distinguished rank in his profession. He was the 
first who effectually removed the difficulties of engraving on steel. 
Died 1823. 



238 THE GRANARY BURIAL GROUND. 

HERE LYES YE BODY OF 

GEORGE ANDREWS, 

SON OF MR. BENJAMIN AND MRS. HANNAH ANDREWS, 
AGED 7 YEARS AND 3 MO. DIED FEB'y 3d, 1757. 



HERE LYES BURIED YE BODY OF 

ABIGAIL LOWEL, 

IFE TO JOSEPH LOWEL 
AGED ABOUT 72 YEARS, 

DIED JUNE 27th, 1707. 



HERE LYES IKTERED YE BODY OF 

JOSEPH LOWEL, 

AGED ABOUT 63 YEARS, 
DEPARTED THIS LIFE AUGUST YE 18tH, 1705. 



HERE LYES YE BODY OF 

C APT . O. V INTON, 

AGED ABOUT 45 YEARS, 
DIED APRIL YE IOtH, 1726. 



INSCKIPTIONS. 239 

HERE LYES YE BODY OF 

MRS. ELISABETH MORDEN, 

AGED 73 YEARS, 
DEc'n DECEMBER YE 13tH, 1731. 



m MEMORY OF 

MR. ALEXANDER MACKAY, JUN'R, 

SON OF 

CAPT. ALEX. & MRS. RUTHEY MACKAY, 

WHO DIED NOV. 20tH, 1787, IN THE 16tH YEAR OF HIS AGE. 



IN MEMORY OF 

POLLY BURR MACKAY, 

D AUGHT. OF 

CAPT. ALEXANDER &, MRS. RUTH MACKAY, 

WHO DIED MAY 27TH, 1783, 

IN THE 4TH YEAR OF HER AGE. 

" LOOK ON THIS BABE fc LEARN TO DIE, 
" HERE YOU MUST LIE AS WELL AS l" 



MRS. SUSANAH HEATON. 



240 THE GRANARY BURIAL GROUND. 

HERE LYES YE BODY OP 

COL'L SAMUEL KNOWLES, 

OF EA8THAM, 
WHO DIED JAN'rY YE 30tH, 1750, IN YE 67tH YEAR OF HIS AGE. 



HERE LIES THE BODY OF 

MRS. ELISABETH KELLY, 

WIFE OF MR. PATRICK KELLY, 

AGED 28 YEARS, 

DIED SEPT. 25, 1758. 



ELISABETH JOHNSTON, 

DAUGT. TO 

MR. GEORGE &, MRS. EUPHEMA JOHNSTON, 

dec'd may YE 18th, 1736, 

IN YE 19TH YEAR OF HER AGE. 



HERE LYES YE BODY OF 

MRS. SUSANNAH GARRETT, 

WIFE OF MR. JOHN GARRETT. 

AGED 84 YEARS, 

WHO DYED JULY YE 28tH, 1745. 



INSCRIPTIONS. 241 

HERE LYES VE BODY OF 

MRS. DEBORAH DRAPER, 

WIFE OF MR. JOHN DRAPER, 
AGED 39 YEARS, DIED DEc'r 9tH, 1736. 



HERE LYES YE BODY OF 

MRS. PERSIS DESHON, 

WIFE TO MR. MOSES DESHON, 
WHO DEC'd JULY YE 21ST, 1738, 

AGED 26 YEARS. 



HERE LIES THE BODY OP 

MRS. ELISABETH WHITWELL, 

WIFE TO SAM'l WHITWELL, 
DEPARTED THIS LIFE APRIL 6tH, 1768, AGED 46 YEARS. 



MARY, 

DAU'r TO MR. SAM'l & MRS, ELIS'tH WHITWELL, 
DIED JUNE 12tH, 1754, AGED 2 YEARS & 17 DAYS. 

[Note. J This stone stands at the corner of the Franklin Monument. 

16 



242 THE GRANARY BURIAL GROUND. 

IN MEMORY OF 

MRS. MARGARET HALL, 

CONSORT OF THE LATE MR. WILLIAM HALL, 

WHO DIED feb'ry 17th, 1782, 

AGED 63 YEARS. 



HERE LIES BURIED YE BODY OP 

MR. WILLIAM HALL, 

LEATHER DRESSER, 
WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE AUGUST YE 16tH, 1771, M. 75. 



• HERE LYES BURIED THE BODY 01 

MRS. ANN HALL, 

THE WIFE OF MR. WILLIAM HALL, 
AGED 45 YEARS, DYED JULY YE 19tH, 1745. 



HERE LIES BURIED THE BODY OF 

MRS. MARY BALLARD 

WIFE OF MR. DANIEL BALLARD, 
DIED SEPT. YE 16tH, 1771, AGED 64 YBAKS. 



INSCRIPTIONS. 243 

HERE LIES THE BODY OF 

MRS. DORCAS BALLARD, 

DAUGHTER OF 

MR. DANIEL & MRS. MARY BALLARD, 

DIED DECEm'r ye 7th, 1768, AGED 26 YEARS. 



HERE LYES BURIED YE BODY OF 

MR. JOHN HUTCHINS, 

WHO DIED JANUARY 23d, 1738, 
IK YE 66th YEAR OF HIS AGE 



HERE LYES YE BODY OF 

MRS. SARAH BOYNTON, 

THE WIFE OF MR, RICHARD BOYNTON, 
AGED 36 YEARS, 

DIED OCT. 16th, 1768. 



HERE LYES BURIED THE BODY OF 

MR. ALEXANDER G * * GONS, 

WHO de'cd may the 25th, 1730, in ye 41st year of his age 



HERE LYES YE BODY OF 

MRS. MARGARET RUSSELL, 

WIFE TO MR. JOHN RUSSELL, 

AGED 26 YEARS, 

DEC'D OCT'R YE 23D, 1732. 



EUSSELL. 

"Take them, Death! and bear awat 
Whatever thoti can'st call these own! 

Thine image stamped upon this clay, 
Doth give thee that, but that alone ! 

"Take them, Grave! and let them he 

Folded upon thy narrow shelves, 
as garments by the soul laid by, 

And PRECIOUS only to ourselves! 

" Take them, great Eternity 1 
Our little life is but a gust, 
That bends the branches of thy tree. 
And Trails its blossoms in the dust!" 

*t* 
The name of Russell has ever been distinguished in the annals of 
Massachusetts, and has prevailed in all the New England States. 

Forty-seven had graduated at the New England Colleges in 1826, of 
whom thirteen have been Clergymen. 



RUSSELL. 245 

George, Hingliam, 1636 ; Scituate between 1636 and 1657, 2 Coll. 
Mass. Hist. Soc. IV. 240. The George Russell who was at Boston in 
1680, is supposed by Hutchinson to have been a younger brother of the 
celebrated Lord William Russell, who was beheaded in Lincoln's Inn 
Fields, 21st July, 1683, M. 42. 

James, of Charlestown^ son of the Hon. Richard Russell, was born 
4th October, 1640 ; admitted Freeman 1668, elected Representative to 
the " Great and General Court" 1679, assistant from 1680 to 1686, 
Councillor under the new Charter 1692, was a Judge and Treasurer of 
Massachusetts. He died April 28, 1709, M. 68. His wife was Maybel, 
daughter of Governor Haynes. 

John, of Charlestown and Boston, finally settled in Boston, where he 
became the first Minister of the Baptist Church, July 28, 1679. He 
died December 24, 1680. According to Benedict, the Russells of Pro- 
vidence and its vicinity are descended from him. 

John, of Woburn, may be the one admitted Freeman in 1644. He 
is styled in "Woburn records, " The Anabaptist," and died June 1, 1676. 

John, of Cambridge, 1636, may be the one called sen. and admitted 
Freeman in 1681. 

John, of Roxbury, was admitted Freeman in 1654. 

John, of New Haven, died 1681. Dodd. 146, 162. 

John, Minister of Wethersfield, Conn., graduated at Harvard Col- 
lege, 1645. [W. Winthrop] removed to Hadley, Mass., in 1659, and 
was there installed. He died November 10, 1692. It was in his house 
in Hadley, that Whalley and GoflFe, two of the Judges who sentenced 
Charles I. to death, were for a long time concealed, and where they are 
supposed to have died. 

A Phillip Russell, was of Hadley, in 1664. 

Jonathan, Minister of Barnstable, son of the preceding, graduated 
at Harvard College 1675, was ordained September 19, 1683. He died 
February 21, 1711, M. 56. His son Jonathan, who graduated at Yale 
College 1708, succeeded his father in the ministry, October 29, 1712. 

John Russell, graduated at Harvard 1704, was a Physician of Barn- 
stable, was probably another son. 



246 THE GRANAEY BURIAL GROUND. 

LoTHROP and John Russell, who graduated at Harvard College in 
1743 and 1751, were of Barnstable 

NoADiAH, was a Minister in Middletown, Conn. He graduated at Har- 
vard in 1681, was ordained in Oct. 24, 1688, and died Dee. 3, 1713, M. 55. 
He was a schoolmaster in Ipswich before he settled in Middletown. 

Ralph, of New Haven, died 1679. Dodd, 146, 162. 

Richard, of Charlestown, came from Herefordshire, England, with 
Maud his wife, about 1640. He was elected a representative in 1642, 
twelve years, and Speaker of the House in 1654,, 1656, and 1658 ; mem- 
ber of the ancient and honorable Artillery Company in 1644 ; assistant 
from 1659 to 1675, sixteen years, and many years Treasurer of the 
colony. He died May 14, 1676, JE. 65. 

Hon. Chambers Russell, Judge of the Supreme Court of Massachu- 
setts, son of Hon. Daniel Russell, was one of his descendants. He gra- 
duated at Harvard, 1731, and died November 24, 1767, M. 54. 

Hon. Thomas Russell, of Boston, who died 1796, was also a de- 
scendant. 

Robert, of Andover, died 1710, JE. 80, having five sons. 

Samuel, Minister of Branford, Conn., son of Rev. John Russell, of 
Hadley, graduated at Harvard College 1681, was ordained in March, 
1687, and died June 25, 1731, M. 71. 

William, of Cambridge, 1645, who, with his wife Martha, was mem- 
ber of the Church in 1658. His sons were Joseph, born in England ; 
Benjamin; John, born 1645; Philip; William; Jason, born 1658; 
Jesse, bom 1660. 

Thomas Russell, of Boston, was a member of the Convention of 
Massachusetts in 1788, to ratify the Constitution of the United States. 
Many of the name have held offices of honor and trust under the State 
and United States governments. Among those of the present century, 
we cannot pass by one who has filled a large space in society, and whose 
remains repose in this " garden of the dead.'''' We allude to the late 
Hon. Benjamin Russell, Editor of the Columbian Centinel, Boston, 
which he commenced March 24, 1784, and continued its proprietor and 
editor until November, 1828. He was born September 1761. His 



RUSSELL. 247 

father was Johu Russell, a descendant from the Rev. John Russell, who 
was born in England, came to Massachusetts when quite young, and waa 
afterwards pastor of the first Baptist Church in Boston. 

Benjamin was also related on the maternal side, to Ezekiel Cheever, 
celebrated as a master of the Boston Latin School, and to the Rev. 
^Jeremy Belknap, the accomplished historian of New Hampshire, and the 
author of " American Biography." His fatrher was a mason by trade, 
and died in 1778. 

When quite a child, Russell was noted for a remarkably retentive 
memory, and more than ordinary facility in learning the tasks prescribed 
by his teacher. He was placed at the public school taught by " Master 
Carter." Nothing was then taught in the common schools of Boston 
but the simplest elements of education, reading, writing, and arithmetic. 
While yet a school-boy he was in the habit of visiting the printing office 
of Isaiah Thomas, where he acquired considerable facility in setting types, 
and where, probably, he learned quite as much as at school.* 

On the morning of the memorable 19th of April, 1775, it became 
known throughout the town that a detachment of British troops had 
crossed the ferry the night before, and were on their march to Concord, 
intending to destroy the stores at that place. About eight o'clock, 

* Among many anecdotes of him, the following was related by himself. " It Was 
part of my duty as an assistant in the domestic affairs of the family, to have the care 
of the cow. One evening, after it was quite dark, I was driving the cow to her pas- 
turage, — the Common. Passing by the burial-ground, adjoining the Stone Chapel, I saw 
several lights that appeared to be springing from the earth, among the graves, and im- 
mediately sinking again to the ground. To my young imagination, they could be 
nothing but ghosts. 

" I left the cow to find her way to the Common, and ran home at my utmost speed. 
Having told my father the cause of my fright, he took me to the spot where the sup- 
posed ghosts were still leaping and playing their pranks. My hair rose on end, and 
seemed to lift my hat from my head. I trembled so that I could scarcely walk. When, 
lo ! there was the sexton, throwing out as he was digging fragments of decayed coffins. 
The phosphorus in the decayed wood blending with the peculiar state of the atmos- 
phere, presented the appearance that had completely unstrung my nerves, and terrified 
me beyond description. I was never afterwards troubled with the fear of ghosts," 



248 THE GRANARY BURIAL GROUND. 

another detachment, under Lord Percy, had paraded in Tremont street, 
and were immediately in motion towards Roxbury. The whole town 
was in agitation. As soon as the customary morning prayer had been 
offered in the school (the school-house was near the head of School street). 
Master Carter said, " Boys, the war's begun, and you may run," 

Russell, with several other boys, near his age, followed the detach- 
ment through Roxbury and Brookline to Cambridge. The troops went 
on to Concord. The boys spent the day at play on the Cambridge Com- 
mon, intending to follow the soldiers into Boston on their return. The 
bridge over Charles River, in Cambridge, was taken up, or impassable, 
during the day, and when the British army returned from their expedi- 
tion about dusk, there was no way of getting into Boston but by the 
ferry. The boys from Boston attempted to follow them, but found it 
impracticable, and they were thus shut out from their homes. 

All intercourse between Boston and the country was prohibited by 
orders of the British commander, and his orders were rigidly enforced. 
Russell and his companions were unprovided with the means of subsist- 
ence, and had no resource but to solicit food and shelter, which were pro- 
vided for them by the selectmen and other citizens of Cambridge. The 
militia of New England soon began to assemble, and several of these vagrant 
lads attached themselves to the officers, — not enlisting, but as waiters, or 
errand-boys. In this way Russell hung around the army for more than 
three months, having no intercourse with his parents. From the sum- 
mit of Prospect-Hill he saw the memorable contest of the Seventeenth 
OF June, on Bunker (Breed's) Hill, and the conflagration which laid in 
ashes the beautiful village of Charlestown. He used frequently to de- 
scribe, with a distinctness for which he was remarkable, the movements of 
the troops from Cambridge across the narrow neck of laud which they 
had to pass in order to reach the scene of action, exposed to the raking 
fire of a British sloop-of-war, — the undaunted activity of Putnam and 
other officers, passing from one regiment to another, endeavoring to en- 
courage the troops to firmness and perseverance, and the retreat of the 
patriot army to Bunker Hill, after the bloody conflict. 

About the beginning of August, Russell was passing from Cambridge 



RUSSELL. 249 

in company with two or three soldiers, to General Putnam's encampment 
on Prospect Hill, when he saw his father in a chaise ; until that moment 
his father had not seen him since the 19th of April. The meeting was 
doubtless a joyful one to both parties ; but the pleasure was manifested 
in rather a singular mode. 

Russell used frequently to say, " My father jumped from the chaise 
and gave me the most severe flogging I ever had." Young Russell was 
then taken to Worcester, and put as an apprentice to Isaiah Thomas. 
When the declaration of Independence was received in Worcester, young 
Russell and a few other young men, found themselves (after celebrating 
the event at a public house the previous night) enlisted as soldiers in 
the Continental army ; he was however discharged, as being a minor. In 
1780, Mr. Thomas was drafted as a " Continental soldier," and was 
obliged to join the army, or find a substitute ; Russell took th€ place of 
his employer, joined the army at West Point, and was present at the 
execution of Major Andre. He was one of the guard that attended him 
to the place of execution. After his six months' service expired he was 
honorably discharged, and returned to Worcester, where he finished his 
apprenticeship. 

His career as one among the most able editors of the Boston press, 
for a long series of years, is too well known to the present generation, to 
be noticed in a work of this kind. He was a patriot, a statesman, and 
an honest man. He was repeatedly elected a Representative and Senator 
in the State Legislature ; a member of the Council, Alderman of the 
city, and many other subordinate offices, all of which he filled in a man- 
ner highly satisfactory to his fellow-citizens, and honorable to himself. 
He died January 4, 1845, at the good old age of fourscore and four years. 

Colonel Ebenezer Russell, a soldier and officer in the war of 1812, 
respected and beloved by all, died at Springfield, Mass., in 1855. Those 
who knew jiim. best, loved and respected him most. He was with the 
troops at South Boston in 1813, when threatened with invasion by the 
British fleet. Among his numerous relatives now living, we must not 
omit the Brothers — Russell, the gentlemanly conductors on the 
Western Railroad. 



250 THE GRANAKY BURIAL GROUND. 

Midway, between the beautiful town of Hadley, Mass., and the 
Connecticut River, and almost beneath the shadow of Mount Holyoke 
on the south, Amherst College on the east, and Northampton westerly, 
the traveller will find amid the fields of golden corn, the ancient ceme- 
tery in which repose all that was mortal of the pilgrims of Hadley for 
near two centuries. Among them he may read, on two brown stone 
tables, the following inscriptions : 

ft EEVERENDRVS 02 

THE FLOCK OF t-" 



Q CHRIST IN HADLEY 



DC 

TIL THE CHIEF ^ 

^ SHEPHERD SVDEN > 

> LLY BVT MERCIFV ^ 

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YEAR OF HIS AGE 



^ DECEMBER 10 2 

>^ 1692 



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GoFFE and Whalley, two of the judges of Charles I., were concealed 
from the rage of their pursuers for several years, in the Rev. Mr. Rus- 
sell's cellar. One of them was there for a long time, and was so care- 
fully screened from the public eye, that none of Mr. Russell's neighbors 
had any knowledge of the circumstance. 

The tradition is that on a certain occasion, when the town was beset 
by Indians, an aged man of a remarkably venerable aspect, with a long 
board, white as the driven snow, suddenly rushed into the engagement, 



ETJSSELL. 251 

fought with wonderful adroitness, animated the soldiers by his cheering 
language and valiant conduct, and after repelling the enemy, immediately 
withdrew to his place of concealment. It was reported that an angel 
had appeared with a sword, and achieved the victory. 



REBEKAH 

MADE BY GOD A MEIT HELP 

TO MR JOHN RVSSELL, 

AND FELLOW LABOVRER IN CHRIST'S WORK 

A WISE VERTVOVS PIOVS MOTHER 

IN ISRAEL LYES HERE 

IN FVLL ASSVRANCE OF A lOYFVL 

RESVRRECTION 

SHE DIED IN THE 67 YEAR OF 

HER AGE NOVEMBR 21 

1688. 



[The following epitaphs we find in the beautiful cemetery of Northampton, Mass.] 
IN MEMORY OP 

MRS. RACHEL RUSSELL, 

CONSORT OF MR. JOHN RUSSELL, 

WHO DIED FEBRUARY 10, 1810, AGED 27 YEARS. 



252 THE GRANARY BUEIAL GROUND. 

LAURA, 

WIFE OF JOHN RUSSELL, 
DIED FEB. 9, 1826, >E. 38. 

" JACOB SET A PILLAR ON RACHEL's GRAVE.' 



A 



[The following inscription we copy from tlie beaiitifal cemetery of Springfield, 

Mass.] 

IN MEMORY OF 2 SONS OF 

MR. ELLIS RUSSELL, 

WHO WERE BOTH DROWNED TOGETHER 

MAY 23, 1783, 

VIZ.: 

MR. STEPHEN RUSSELL, 

IN YE 31 YEAR OF HIS AGE, 

AND 

ARCHELAUS, 
IN YE 13 YEAR OF HIS AGE. 

READER BEWARE, AND VENTURE NOT TOO FAR, 

TO SAVE ONE DROWNING, LEST MY FATE YOU SHARE. 

THE SECOND I VENTURED IN TO SAVE, 

A BROTHER DROWNING, BROUGHT ME TO MY GRAVE. 



RUSSELL. 253 

[The following beautiful lines were written in 1850, and presented to us, by Mrs. I). 
Ellen Goodman, whose remains now repose in the cemetery of Springfield, Mass.] 

"oh, all unshaken 
is the cold, deep spell around them, 

pulseless every breast; 
in the slumber that hath bound them, 

they must ever rest. 

bright, pure ones taken 
from the earth so glad and blooming, 

FROM life's TREACHEROUS WAVE, 
WHILE RICH FLOWERS THE AIR PERFUMING, 
NOD ABOVE THEIR GRAVE." 



254 THE GRANARY BURIAL GROUND. 

HERE LIES BURIED THE BODY OF 

MRS. HANNAH C O W E L , 

WIFE TO MR. EDWARD COWEL, 

AND DAUGHTER TO MR. NATh'l & MRS. HANNAH A. MARTIN, 

DIED JUNE YE 24, 1746, 

AGED 24 YEARS. 



LIES BURIED THE BODY OP 

MR. SAMUEL MARTIN, 

AGED 26 YEARS, DIED DEC'r YE 11, 1742. 



HERE LYES YE BODY OP 

MR. BENJAMIN EASTBROOK, 

j'd JULY YE 3d, 1730, IN YE 25 YEAR OF HIS AGE. 

BENJ . 

YE SON OF MR. BENJ. & MRS. RUTH EASTBROOK, 

AGED 4 MONTHS, 

DIED DEC. YE 15, 1728. 



ABIGAIL, 

DAu'r to BENJ. & RUTH EASTBROOK, 
DIED OCT. YE **, 1723, AGED 1 YEAR & 12 DS. 



INSCRIPTIONS. 255 

HERE LYES YE BODY OF 

RICH'D E ASTBROOK, 

80N TO BENJ. AND ABIGAIL EASTBROOK, 

AGED 24 YEARS, 

DIED SEPT. 26, 1721. 



IN MEMORY OF 

MISS SALLY CAMPBELL, 

DAUGHTER OF MR. PATRICK CAMPBELL, 

WHO DIED DECEMBER 15tH, 1790, 

AGED 14 YEARS. 



HERE LYETH BURIED YE BODY OP 

JOHN TADOURNEAU, 

ye son of elus & hannah tadourneau, 

aged 23 years, 

dec'd jan'ry ye 29, 1697-8. 



HERE LYETH YE BODY OF 

ELIS'TH MIAM, 

AGED 25 YEARS, DIED AUGUST YE 26, 1699. 



256 THE GKANARY BURIAL GROUND. 

PHILLIP PALIERE, 

AGED 1 MONTH, 

MARGARETT PALIERE, 

AGED 10 MONTHS, 

DEo'd JUNE YE 5, 1730. 

ELISABETH PALIERE, 

AGED 1 MONTH, 
ANNA PALIERE, 

AGED 5 YEARS, 

dec'd JUNE YE 6th, 1730. 
THE CHILDREN OF PHILLIP &, MARGARETT PALIERE. 



HERE LIES BURIED THE BODY OF 

MRS. MARGARETT PALIERE, 

WIFE OF MR. PHILLIP PALIERE,^ 

DIED feb'ry 7th, 1752, 

AGED 50 YEARS. 



IN MEMORY OF 

MR. JAMES WOODROW, 

WHO DIED NOV. 16tH, 1782, AGED 36 YEARS. 



INSCRIPTIONS. 257 

HERE LIES BURIED 

MAGDELAIN, 

DAU'r to MR. PHILLIP & MRS. SUSANNAH DUMARESQ, 
AGED 2 YEARS & 10 MO. 

dec'd JULY YE 8th, 1730. 



BENEATH THIS STONE 
ARE DEPOSITED THE REMAINS OF 

CAPT. JOHN MACKAY, 

WHO WAS SHIPWRECKED AT BAKEr's ISLAND, JAn'y 6tH, 1796, 
AGED 32 YEARS. 



HERE LIES BURIED THE BODY OF 

MR. THOMAS F I L L E B R O W N , 

WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE JULY 26tH, 1764, 
AGED 52 YEARS. 



HERE LIES BURIED THE BODY OF 

MR. JOHN FILLEBROWN, 

WHO DIED OF THE SMALL-POX, SEPTEMBER 5tH, 1769, 
AGED 49 YEARS. 

17 



258 THE GKANARY BURIAL GROUND. 

MRS. SUSANNAH BOYER. 



MARIAM, 

DAU. TO MR. ANDREW & MRS. MARGARET HUNTER, 

AGED 1 YEAR & 3 MO. & 6 d's.' 

DEC'd JULY YE 11, 1734. 



ANN, 

DAU. TO ANDREW & MARGARET HUNTER, 

AGED 3 DAYES, 

DEC'd MAY YE 23d, 1729. 



HERE LIES BURIED THE BODY OF 

MR. JOHN CRAWFORD, 

WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE MAY THE IOtH, A. D. 1761. 



JAMES, 

SON TO MR. JOHN & MRS. JANE STBNSON, 

AGED 13 MONTHS, 

DIED SEPT, YE 8tH, 1747. 



INSCRIPTIONS. 259 

SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF 

JOHN RICE, 

LATE OF BOSTON, BLACKSMITH, 

WHOSE REMAINS LIE HERE INTERRED. 

HE DEPARTED THIS LIFE ON THE 8tH OF APRIL, 1783, 

BEING YE DAY 

HE COMPLETED YE 57tH YEAR OF HIS AGE. 

"blessed ark THE DEAD WHO DIE IN THE LORD." 



HERE LYES BURIED YE BODY OF 

MR. JAMES NICHOLS, 

WHO DIED SEPT. 29tH, ANNO DOMINI 1730, 
IN YE 36 YEAR OF HIS AGE. 



IN MEMORY OF 

***** WELLER, 

SON OF GEORGE & ABIGAIL WELLER, 
WHO DIED SEPT. 2, 1790, 
AGED 11 MONTHS k 14 Di 



HERE LYES YE BODY OF 

WILLIAM BUTLER, 

AGED 43 YEARS, 
DIED MAY THE 7tH, 1714. 



BUTLER. 

Henry Butler was a freeman in 1651. He was born in Kent, 
England, educated at Cambridge, and came to New England about 1650, 
and was in the ministry eleven or twelve years. He returned to Eng- 
land, and was settled at Yeovil, in Somersetshire, and died April 24, 
1696, aged about 72. John Butler, of Massachusetts, was admitted 
freeman in 1635. One of this name was a member of the ancient and 
honorable Artillery Company in 1644; another, John Butler, of Massa- 
chusetts, was a freeman in 1649. Nicholas Butler, of Dorchester, was a 
freeman in 1638. Richard Butler, of Cambridge, in 1632, was a free- 
man in 1634. Thomas Butler, of Lynn, removed to Sandwich in the 
year 1637. William Butler, of Boston and Cambridge, was a freeman 
in 1635. He married Eunice, sister of Tristram Coffin, who came to 
New England in the year 1644. Peter Butler, perhaps his son, died at 
Boston in 1699. — Farmer. 

Major-general Richard Butler, an officer of the Revolutionary army, 
in the latter part of the war had the rank of Colonel, and was distin- 
guished on several occasions. About 1787, he was agent for Indian 
Affairs in Ohio. In the expedition against the Indians in 1791, he 



BUTLEK. 261 

accompanied St. Clair, and commanded the right wing. Our troops, 
encamped a few miles from the Miami villages, were attacked in the 
morning of Nov. 4th. The militia, who were in advance, were thrown 
into confusion, and rushed through the first line, commanded by General 
Butler. ~ The action was now severe; the Indians lying on the ground, 
and pouring a deadly fire upon the whites. General Butler, in a heroic 
charge with the bayonet, drove them back three or four hundred yards. 
But resistance was inefi"ectual. In a short time* six hundred, of the 
army of twelve hundred, were killed and wounded, and the rest at nine 
o'clock fled with precipitation. Gen. Butler was wounded, and carried 
to a convenient place to have his wounds dressed ; but an Indian broke 
in upon him and tomahawked and scalped him, ere he himself was killed 
by our troops. Major Ferguson was another victim. In one of the 
charges Major Butler was dangerously wounded. A son of Gen. Butler 
distinguished himself at Fort Meigs, under Harrison, in April, 1813. — 
Holmes, ii. 388 ; Marshall, v. 329-334. 

Colonel Thomas Butler, a brave officer during the Revolutionary 
war, was a brother of the preceding. Three other brothers fought in 
the service of their country. In the year 1776, he was a student at law 
with Judge Wilson, of Philadelphia ; but early in that year he quitted 
his studies, and joined the army as a subaltern. He soon obtained the 
command of a company, in which he continued till the close of the Revo- 
lutionary contest. He was in almost every action that was fought in 
the Middle States during the war. At the battle of Brandywine, Sept. 
11, 1777, he received the thanks of Washington on the field of battle, 
through his aide-de-camp, General Hamilton, for his intrepid conduct in 
rallying a detachment of retreating troops, and giving the enemy a 
severe fire. At the battle of Monmouth, June 28, 1778, he received 
the thanks of Wayne for defending a defile in the face of a heavy fire 
from the enemy, while Colonel Richard Butler's regiment made good 
their retreat. At the close of the war he retired into private life as a 
farmer, and continued in the enjoyment of rural and domestic happiness 
till the year 1791, when he again took the field against the savages, who 
menaced our western frontier. He commanded a battalion in the disas- 



262 THE GRANAKY BURIAL GROUND. 

trous battle of Nov. 4, in which his brother fell. Orders were given by 
General St. Clair to charge with the bayonet, and Major Butler, though 
his leg had been broken by a ball, yet on horseback led his battalion to 
the charge. It was with difficulty that his surviving brother. Captain 
Edward Butler, removed him from the field. In 1792, he was con- 
tinued on the establishment as Major, and in 1794, he was promoted to 
the rank of Lieutenant-colonel commandant of the fourth sub-legion. 
He commanded in this year Fort Fayette at Pittsburg, and prevented 
the deluded insurgents from taking it more by his name, than by his 
forces, for he had but few troops. In 1797, he was named by Washing- 
ton as the officer best calculated to command in the State of Tennessee, 
when it was necessary to dispossess some citizens, who had imprudently 
settled on the Indian lands. Accordingly in May he marched with his 
regiment from the Miami on the Ohio, and by that prudence and good 
sense, which marked his character through life, he in a short time re- 
moved all difficulties. While in Tennessee he made several treaties 
with the Indians. In 1802, at the reduction of the army, he was con- 
tinued as Colonel of a regiment on the peace establishment. The 
close of his life was imbittered. In 1803, he was arrested by the com- 
manding general at Fort Adams on the Mississippi, and sent to Mar}'- 
land, where he was tried by a court-martial, and acquitted of all the 
charges, except that of wearing his hair. He was then ordered to New 
Orleans, where he arrived to take the command of the troops Oct. 20. 
He was again arrested the next month. He died Sept. 7, 1805, aged 
fifty-one years. — Louisiana Gaz.; Polyanthos, i. 13-17; Marshall, v. 
332. 

Zebulon Butler, a soldier of the Revolution, was one of the early 
settlers at Wyoming, said to be the cousin of Colonel John Butler, but 
this has been recently denied by his grandson. He fought bravely in 
the old French war. In the war of the Revolution he was the second 
in command at Wyoming, when that beautiful vale was desolated by the 
ferocious John Butler; he marched July 3, 1778, from Wilkesbarre, 
where a small guard was left, to the neighboring fort of Kingston, with 
four hundred men. On being summoned to surrender in two hours he 



BUTL.ER. 263 

demanded a parley, and a place in Kingston was appointed for the meet- 
ing ; he proceeded thither with his troops, and on approaching a flag, 
seen at the foot of a mountain, he was drawn thus treacherously into an 
ambush, and the enemy rose upon him in great numbers. He fought 
bravely three-quarters of an hour, when one of his men cried out, that 
he had ordered a retreat. This interrupted their fire, and a total rout 
ensued. Many were lost in the river, when endeavoring to cross it, the 
enemy pursuing them with fury. Only seventy escaped to Wilkesbarre. 
On this day two hundred women were made widows. July 4th, the enemy, 
with a summons to surrender, sent one hundred and ninety-six scalps 
into Fort Kingston, where Col. Dennison commanded. In the evening- 
Col. Butler left the fort with his family, and proceeded down the river 
in safety. Such is the account, written or published at Poughkeepsie, 
July 20th, and published in Almon's Remembrancer, and which was fol- 
lowed by Gordon, Marshall, and others, excepting that Marshall reduces 
the number which escaped July 3d, to twenty, instead of seventy. But 
this account of the affair has been recently contradicted by E. D. 
Griffin, whose mother was the daughter of Col. Butler. According to 
his statement, his grandfather was compelled to fight prematurely by the 
rash vehemence of his men, who could not brook the delay requisite for 
obtaining information concerning the enemy ; but, ambushed, he rode 
amongst the ranks, exposing himself with the utmost coolness to the 
whole fire of the enemy, in the vain hope of sustaining the courage of his 
men; and of three hundred, only four escaped, of which number he was 
one. Such an incautious, rash attack of the enemy under Brant, by the 
troops of Goshen, issued the next year in a similar defeat at Minisink , 
Col. Tusten being compelled to march by the brave flourish of a subor- 
dinate officer. Col. Butler received marks of confidence from Wash- 
ington. Mr. Griffin, about the year 1816, visited the grave of his 
grandfather, the patriarch of Wyoming, and found some uncouth rhymes 
chiselled on his monument. Had Thomas Campbell resided one winter 
at Wyoming, ere he wrote his Gertrude, a beautiful poem, he never 
would have associated the objects of tropical scenery with the vale of 
the Susquehanna ; he never would have made the crocodile to swim in 



264 THE GKANAKY BURIAL GROUND. 

that river ; nor caused the red flamingo aud the huge condor of the rock 
to spread their wings there ; nor planted on its banks the aloe, the high 
magnolia, and the palm tree. — Almon''s Amer. rememh. 1779, p. 51-55 ; 
Gordon, in. 188 ; Thacher''s mil. jour. 141 ; Marshall, m. 557 ; Grif- 
fin's rem,ains. 

Colonel William Butlee, an officer of the Revolution, after the de- 
struction of Wyoming by John Butler and the Indians, July 5, 1778, 
was immediately detached in command, as Lieutenant-colonel of the 
fourth Pennsylvania regiment, for the assistance of the frontiers. He 
marched from Schoharie, and penetrated into the Indian country in 
October, with great difficulty, crossing high mountains and deep waters, 
and destroyed the towns Unadilla and Anaguaga, the latter being the 
head-quarters of Brant, lying on both sides the Susquehanna, where it 
is two hundred and fifty yards wide. Many farm houses and about four 
thousand bushels of grain were destroyed. His account of the expedi- 
tion was published. It is believed that he is the Col. Brown who was 
distinguished in the expedition of Sullivan against the Indians in 
1779. — Marshall, iii. 562 ; Almon's remem. 1779, 253. 

Major-general William Butler, an officer of the Revolution, was the 
son of James Butler, who in the command of a party of whigs was sur- 
prised and taken prisoner near Cloud's creek. South Carolina, by a party 
of Cunningham's horse, and after his surrender perished with the other 
prisoners, who were marched out one by one and cut to pieces. This 
treacherous murder, by the hand of the royalist leader, gave a keen edge 
to the spirit of the son. At the head of a body of cavalry he, with 
Capt. Michael Watson, of the mounted rangers, attacked with great 
gallantry and dispersed double the number of the enemy in Dean's 
Swamp, though Watson fell in the action. In 1800 he was a Represen- 
tative in Congress. la the war of 1812, he commanded the forces of 
South Carolina employed in the defence of the State. He died in 
Edgefield district, Nov. 15, 1821, aged 67. 

General Percival Butler, a soldier of the Revolution, was with the 
army at the siege and capture of York, Oct, 19, 1781. He died at Port 
William, Kentucky, Sept. 11, 1821, aged 61. 



BUTLER. 2G5 

Peirce Butler, a Senator, was of the family of tlie dukes of Ormond 
in Ireland. Before the E evolution he was a Major in a British regiment 
in Boston. He afterwards attached himself to the republican institu- 
tions of America. In 1787, he was a delegate from South Carolina to Con- 
gress; in 1788, a member of the Convention which framed the Constitu- 
tion of the United States. Under the Constitution he was one of the first 
Senators from South Carolina, and remained in Congress till 1796. On 
the death of Mr. Calhoun, in 1802, he was again appointed; but re- 
signed in 1804. Ill his political views he was ojiposed to some of the 
measures of Washington's administration. Jay's treaty he disapproved, 
while he approved of the war of 1812. He died at Philadelphia, Feb. 
15, 1822, aged 77. His wife, a daughter of Col. Middleton, of Charles- 
ton, whom he married in 1768, died in 1790. 



[On the oldest monument in Williamsburgh, Mass., is the following inscription.] 

THIS MONUMENT 
IS SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF THE 

REV. AMOS BUTLER, 

WHO WAS BORN AT HARTFORD ; 

SETTLED THE FIRST GOSPEL MINISTER IN THIS TOWN j 

SUSTAINED THE MINISTERIAL CHARACTER 

WITH UNCOMMON DIGNITY AND USEFULNESS FOUR YEARS, 

AND RESTED FROM HIS LABORS 

OCT. 1.3th, 1777, 

IN THE 30th year OF HIS AGE. 

• IF THEY HEAR NOT MOSES AND THE PROFHETS, NEITHER WILL THEY 
hear THOUGH ONE ROSE FROM THE DEAD." 



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The following details are published not as being complete, but with 
the hope that the publication of them may bo as a magnet, attracting to 
itself, and thus supplying the wanting links, which might otherwise 
perish from the chain of a family history. Any information, however 
slight, respecting any of the lines, whether direct or collateral, hereby 
brought to light, will be welcomed by the author of this article, or the 
editor of this journal. 

We are still in the dark as to the family history of not a few among 
the first fathers of New England. Much of this darkness might be 
dispelled, were all the written memorials still extant sought out, com- 
pared, and committed to the keeping of the art preservative of all arts. 
Winthrop in his Journal speaks of a letter from the Yarmouth pilgrims 
to their brethren, with their names, as printed at Loudon in 1630. The 
instructions to Endecott, the first Grovernor of Massachusetts Bay, were, 
" Keep a daily register in each family of what is done by all and every 
person in the family." 

In Young's Chronicles of Plymouth (p. 36), and of Massachusetts 
Bay (p. 157), lists of names of emigrants are referred to, but the lists 
themselves are not given. 

Notwithstanding several good works upon the Huguenots have re- 
cently appeared, much genealogical labor remains to be performed in 
tracing the lineage of particular families to France, and investigating 
their condition there before their emigration. I have often sought, 
though without success, for the records of the Old French Church in 
Boston, which stood on the site of the Universalist Church in School- 
street. 

NOTES. 

1. Neither the family name of Stephen Butler's wife, nor any other 
particulars respecting him have been ascertained, except the record of 
the births of his children, which is extracted from the city registers of 
Boston, formerly kept in the Old State House. As he became a father 
in Boston, within little more than twenty years after its first settlement, 
it may be presumed that he was an emigrant from Europe. 



268 THE GRANAKY BUIIIAL GROUND. 

2. Benjamin Butler. The different dates in this and similar cases 
denote the births of different children bearing the same name ; the 
former in all probability died before the birth of the latter. 

3. James Butler probably died before 1G92, if the Grace Butler, 
married to Andrew Rankin, April 15th, of that year, by Simon Brad- 
street, was his widow. 

4. Information as to the kindred of Abigail Eustice may doubtless 
be found in the public records of Boston. 

5. James Butler was a proprietor in a rope-walk at West Boston ; 
was married April 6, 1710, by Rev. E, Pemberton, of the Old South. 
He was probably admitted to the First Church Jan. 24, 1703-4. A 
folio Bible with Clarke's annotations, now in my possession, as an heir- 
loom from my father and grandfather, beai\s the name of this James 
Butler, my grandfather's grandfather, and the date 1713, doubtless 
written by his own hand. 

6. Grace Butler was married Dec. 26, 1706, to Thomas Jackson, by 
Benjamin Wadsworth, minister of the First Church. She had several 
children, Grace, Thomas, and Elizabeth, and died March 15, 1759. 

7. Eliza Butler was admitted to the first church Nov. 25, 1706, 
and was married to Capt. Ephraim Savage, Jan. 8, 1712. Nothing 
further is known of her. 

8. James Butler was by trade a goldsmith. About 1750 he removed 
to Halifax, Nova Scotia, but proving unfortunate in his enterprise, soon 
returned to Boston. He afterwards' lived awhile in Sutton, Mass., l)tjt 
died in Boston, in 1776, aged 63. 

9. Although I have abstained from full details of collateral lines, I 
am constrained to give them respecting Elizabeth Davie, since her line 
of ancestry is so long. 



BUTLEK. 
John Davie of Exeter, Eng. == -Mian Strode. 


269 


John, Mary, = Humj)hrcy, a Lon- 
don merchant. 




1 
John, removed from = 
London and settled in 
Groton, Mass., 1662. 


= Elisabeth Richards. Ann, d. Sept. 
12, 1662. 




(a) John, graduated atHar- (b) Humphrey of 
vard 1681, became bar- Dorchester, = 
onet in 1713, presented 
books to Yale College. 


Mary. WUliam. Elisabeth. 
= (c) Hannah Gedney. 


Sarah 



Elisabeth, d. Feb. = (8) James Butler. 
15, 1739. 

(a) The lineage of this nobleman, his heraldic emblazonings and the 
like, may be found in Burke's Peerage of England ; " vix ea nostra 

TOGO." 

(b) Humphrey Davie was a captain in the London trade. Hence 
his daughter had many fine dresses. One of these now belongs to her 
granddaughter, Mrs. Sarah Kingsbury, of Oxford, Mass. 

It is of brocade, with many-colored figures embroidered upon a 
ground of green. It has two skirts, each of seven breadths, a long 
bodice to be worn with a satin stomacher, sleeves short at the elbows, 
with flowing ruffles. A silver tabby christening, or to use a better ex- 
pression, baptismal, blanket, now in my possession, is said to have been 
made of another of my great-grandmother's dresses. There is a family 
tradition that these dresses were pawned by her husband after her death, 
and redeemed by her son. 

(c) Hannah Gedney's lineage, so far as I can trace it, is as follows : 



70 THE GRANAKY BURIAL GROUND. 



John Gedney, b. 1603 ; d. Aug. 5, 1688; = Mniy - 
admitted to church in Salem, Nov. 19, 1637. = Catherine 



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Sarah. Eli. Bartholomew, Eleazer. John, lost at sea, = . 

baptized June 
14, 1640,Free- 
man 1669; d. 
March 1, 1698. 



William, b. 1668; m. 1690; d. 1730. = Hannah Gardner. 



Hannah, = (b) Humphrey Davie. 

10. James Butler was brought up to the trade of a hatter; was mar- 
ried May 10, 1763, by Kev. Andrew Eliot, of New North Church; in 
August, 1774, fled with his wife and six children under ten years of age, 
to Georgetown, Me., a four days' voyage. He was driven to this flight 
by the Boston port-bill, which brought all business to a stand. After 
remaining four years in Maine, he returned to Boston, and soon re- 
moved to Oxford, Mass.; where he resided till his death, Dec. 20, 1827, 
aged 88. 

11. Mary Sigourney was great-granddaughter of a Sigourney, who, 
being a Huguenot, fled from Roehelle, in France, with bis wife and fouT 
small children, in 1685. This first emigrant was among the first settlers 
in Oxford, Mass., and some of his children married there. Through fear 
of Indians, he removed to Boston. I have made out an extensive table 
of his posterity, but on account of its length, must refrain from insert- 
ing it here, except so far as relates to my own family. Among the 
descendants of this Huguenot exile, are the Brimmers, the Inches, and 
the Dexters, of Boston ; the commander of the schooner Asp, killed 
by the British in the Potomac, in 1813 ; and the husband " of our most 
popular poetess. 

12. James Davie Butler was born in Boston, Oct. 5, 1765. In 1786, 
left a school he was teaching in Oxford, to be a volunteer against Shays. 
Emigrated to Rutland, Vt., in August, 1787 ; was at first a hatter; in 
1792, became a merchant, and continued in trade fifty years, till his 
death, June 3, 1842. 



BUTLEK. 271 

Sigourney, = . 



I 
Andrew, m. ab. = Gei-maine 
1701, at Oxford. | 



Anthony, b. Boston, Aug. 17, 1713, == (,*) Mary Waters. 



(11) Mary, b. March 23, 1741 ; m. May 18, 1763; = (10) James Butler, 
was early taught French by her grandmother, 
as the tongue of her ancestors ; consulted by 
Dr. Holmes as to Huguenot annals ; had the 
covenant propounded to her at the New North 
Church, Feb. 22, 1761. 

He was married, Aug. 22, 1802, to the widow Rachel Maynard, and 
March 15, 1827, to Lois Harris. He represented the town of Rutland 
in the Vermont Legislature, for the years 1812 and 1813. In the year 
181-4, he was a member of the State Council. 

His first wife was daughter of Capt. Israel Harris, of Williamstown, 
Mass., who went with Ethan Allen's Green Mountain Boys to take Ticon- 
deroga, and was an officer in the battle of Bennington. 

13. This infant of days may be noticeable as being the seventh of 
those who, in one unbroken line during one hundred and eighty-one 
years, have borne the name of James. — N. E. Hist, and Gen. Reg. 

(*) Mary Waters was of Welsh extraction. She owned a copy of Flavel in two 
volumes folio (London, 1740), which is now in my hands. One of her brocade dresses 
is still preserved by Miss Mary Butler, of Rutland, Vt. 



272 THE GKANAKY BURIAL GROUND. 

HERE ARE INTERED THE REMAINS OF 

LEWIS BUTLER, 

2D SON OF SIMEON AND MARY BUTLER, 
WHO DIED FEB. 16, 1818, AGED 18. 



" WEEP NOT FOR ME MY DANGERS ALL ARE PAST, 
I'vE RUN THE RACE AND GAINED THE GOAL AT LAST, 
I'vE LEFT THE CUMBROUS LOAD OF FLESH BEHIND. 



* * * 



IN MEMORY OF 

MARY ANN BUTLER, 

ELDEST CHILD OF SIMEON AND MARY BUTLER, 

WHO DIED SEP. 23d, 1802, 

IN THE 8TH YEAR OF HER AGE. 

EMBLEM OF INNOCENCE, 

THY PLACID MIND KNEW NO ROUGH PASSION, 

NOR A THOUGHT UNKIND. 

BRIGHT WERE OUR HOPES, WE MOURN TO FIND THEM VAIN, 

BUT GOD IS JUST AND ***** 



EDWARD BUTLER, 

DIED JULY 13, 1849, 
AGED 52. 



WILLIAM BUTLER, 

DIED MARCH 9, 1831, 



BUTLER. 273 

MARY, 

THIRD DAUGHTER OF 

MR. WILLIAM AND MRS. HULDAH BUTLER, 

DIED JULY 3D, 1800, AGED 8. 



UNDER THIS STONE REST THE REMAINS OF 
MRS. ANNA BUTLER, 

WIFE OF MR. DANIEL BUTLER, 

AND DAUGHTER OF JOHN AND MRS. MARY WELSH, 

OF BOSTON, 

WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE MAY 9TH, 1801, 

AGED 32 YEARS. 

THOSE WHO KNEW HER NOT, MAY LEAEN FROM THIS 

MONUMENTAL STONE, THAT HER VIRTUES HAVE RENDERED 

HER MEMORY PRECIOUS 

TO HER BEREAVED PARTNER. 

THE SIGHT OF IT 

WILL EXCITE A TENDER RECOLLECTION OF HER WORTH 

IN THE BOSOMS OF THOSE WHO KNEW HER. 



WILLIAM, 

SON OF MR. WILLIAM AND MRS. HULDAH BUTLER, 
DIED SEP. 7TH, 1802, AGED 15 MONTHS. 

18 



274 -THE GKANARY BURIAL GROUND. 

JOHN BROWN, 

SON OF MR. WILLIAM AND MRS. HULDAH BUTLER, 

DIED JULY 5TH, 18U, AGED 21 MONTHS. 



DANIEL BUTLER, 
DIED SEP. 14, 1838, AGED 65 YEARS. 



IN MEMORY OF 

MRS. MARY BUTLER, 

WIFE OF MR. SIMEON BUTLER, 

WHO DIED MARCH 1, 1829, AGED 55 YEARS. 

SWEET PEACE AND HEAVENLY HOPE 

AND HUMBLE JOY, 

DIVINELY SHONE ON HER ENRAPTURED SOUL AND CROWNED 

HER FOR THE SKIES. 



SIMEON BUTLER, 

DIED NOV. 7, 1847, AGED 77 YEARS. 

'the LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS.' 

[Note.] The foregoing inscriptions of the Butler Family we copy from the North- 
ampton Annals. 



PHILLIPS. 

George Phillipsj the first minister of Watertown, was born at Ray- 
mond, in Norfolk, England. He came over with Governor Wintlirop 
June 2d, 1630, admitted Freeman 1631, died July 1, 1644, having been 
the minister there fourteen years. His wife died at Salem soon after he 
landed, and by another wife, who died January 27th, 1681, he had Zoro- 
babel, born April 5th, 1632 ; Jonathan, bom November 16th, 1633 ; 
Theophilus, born June 28th, 1636; Awbet, [?] who died 1638; Oba- 
diah, born 1642. 

Samuel, minister of Rowley, son of the preceding, was born in Box 
ford, England, in 162.5, graduated at Harvard College in 1651, was or 
dained colleague with Rev. Ezekiel Rogers, and died April 22d, 1696 
JSj. 71. He married Sarah, daughter of Samuel Appleton, of Ipswich 
She died July 15th, 1713, M 86. His children were Sarah, Samuel 
George, Elizabeth, Dorcas, Mary, and John. George graduated at Har 
vard College 1686, and was minister of Brookhaven, L. I., 42 years 
He died in 1739, JE. 75. Samuel was. born March 23d, 1658, was a 
goldsmith in Salem, and married Mary, daughter of Rev. John Emerson, 
of Gloucester ; they had two sons and four daughters. The eldest son 
was Rev. Samuel Phillips, of Andover, born February 28, IGlO, gradu- 
ated at Harvard College 1708, was ordained October 17, 1711. He died 
June 5, 1771. He had five children, of whom were Samuel, born Feb- 
ruary 13, 1713, graduated at Harvard College, 1734. He was a Coun- 
cillor of Massachusetts, and died August 21, 1790, IF. 76. 



276 THE GEANARY BURIAL GROUND. 

John, born December 27, 1719, graduated at Harvard College 1735, 
a Councillor of N. H., and the founder of Exeter Academy, He died in 
April, 1795, M. 76. William, born June 25, 1722, who was father of 
the late munificent patron to our charitable and religious institutions, 
Lieut. Gov. William Phillips, who died at Boston, .May 26, 1827, JE. 
77. Lieut. Gov. Samuel Phillips, graduated at Harvard College 1771, 
who died February 10, 1802, aged 50, was son of Samuel, the eldest son 
of Rev. Samuel Phillips. George, of Windsor, 1640. 

Henry, of Dedham, was admitted Freeman in 1638, member of the 
Ar. Co. 1640, was solicited to become a candidate for the ministry ; was 
an Ensign, and in 1657 resided in Boston, perhaps the representative of 
Hadley in 1672. 

John, of. Dorchester, requested to be made Freeman October 19, 
1630, and admitted to the oath 1632, perhaps the following. John of 
Boston, one of the founders of the second Church, bought of George 
Cleaves his house, lands, &c., at Falmouth, in 1659. His son John, 
was born in Boston, 1635. John, of Charlestown, Freeman in 1673, 
member of the Ar. Co. in 1680, its Captain in 1685, representative from 
1683 to 1686, one of the Council of Safety in 1689, Colonel of the 
Militia, Treasurer of the Province ; one of the first Councillors under 
the New Charter 1691, and continued in ofl&ce until 1716, and Judge of 
the Inferior Court. He died March 20, 1725, M. 94. John, of Marsh 
field, was killed by lightning, July 31, 1658. Nicholas, of Weymouth 
1640; died September 1672, aged 61, leaving children, Richard, Joshua 
Benjamin, Albie, Experience, and Hannah. He had a brother, Henry, 
Nicholas, of Boston, died in 1656. Thomas was a member of the Ar. 
Co. 1644. Walter of Wiscasset, about 1661. William of Saco, 1659, 
was appointed a magistrate in 1665, by King Charles's Commissioners, 
was a Major in 1675. His habitation was assaulted by Indians, £ 
tember 18, 1675, and soon after burnt by them. William, of Charles 
town, 1640, had children : Phoebe, born 1640 ; Nathaniel, born in 1642 
Mary, born in 1644. His wife died in 1646. Zeehariah, of Boston 
member of the Ar. Co. in 1660, was killed by the Indians at Brookfield, 
in August 1675. His son Zeehariah, was born in 1656. 



PHILLIPS. 277 

This tomb, No. 60, was probably built by Nicholas Buttolph, whose 
daughter married John Phillips. 

John Phillips, the great grandson of Rev. George Phillips, the first 
minister of Watertown, was born in Salem, Mass., June 22, 1701; was 
Colonel of the Boston regiment; a bookseller, established in Cornhill. 
Boston. He was a representative to the General Court in 1660, '61, and 
'62. He died at Boston, April 19, 1763, aged 62 years, leaving three 
sons and three daughters. His son William, born in Boston, August 
29, 1737, married Margaret, daughter of Col. Jacob Wendell, of Boston. 
He kept an English goods store in Cornhill, and died in Boston, January 
4, 1772, aged 34 years, leaving four children : William, who died at the 
age of 16 years ; Margaret, who married Samuel Cooper, son of William 
Cooper, the Revolutionary Town Clerk of Boston ; Sarah who married 
Mark Newman, of Andover, and John Phillips, born in Boston, Novem- 
ber 26, 1770, who graduated at Harvard College in 1788, and repre- 
sented his native town in both branches of the Legislature ; presided 
over the Senate ten years, and was the first Mayor of Boston. He mar- 
ried Sally, daughter of Thomas Walley of Boston, December 18, 1794. 
He left eight children, viz. : 1. Thomas Walley. 2. John Charles. 
3. George William. 4. Wendell. 5. Grenville Tudor. 6. Sarah Hurd 
7. Margaret Wendell. 8. Miriam. Margaret Wendell, widow of Wil- 
liam Phillips, died in Boston, February 27, 1823, aged 84 years. 

Sally Walley, widow of John Phillips, died in Boston, November 4, 
1845, aged 73 years. 

Samuel, son of John Phillips and Sally Walley, died in Boston, 
February, 1817, aged 16 years, a member of Harvard College. 



278 THE GKANAKY BUKIAL GROUND. 

HERE LIES BURIED YE BODY OF 

MRS. MARTHA MCFADDEN, 

WIFE OF MR. JOHN MCFADDEN 

WHO DIED JAn'y YE 26tH, 1761, 

AGED 44 YEARS. 



HERE LYES YE BODY OF 

MRS. ELISABETH LABBE, 

WIFE TO STEPHEN LABBE, 

AGED 38 YEARS, 
DIED MARCH YE 26, 1720. 



DEBORAH COBHAM, 

WIFE TO JOSIAH COBHAM, 

AGED 46 YEARS, 

DIED JULY YE 15, 1688. 



MARY, 

TE WIFE OF JOSIAH COBHAM. 

AGED ABOUT 80 YEARS, 

DEc'd FEBRUARY YE 10, 169*-8. 



INSCKIPTIONS. 279 

HERE LIES BURIED THE BODY OF 

MRS. LYDIA GREEN, 

wife of mr. john green, 
dec'd march 20th, 1756, aged 2G years. 



HERE LIES BURIED THE BODY OF 

MR. SAMUEL DRAPER, 

OB't YE 21 ST MARCH, 1767, 
^T. 30 YEARS. 



HERE LIES YE BODY OF 

MR. JOSEPH HILL, 

AGED 80 YEARS, DEC'd MAY YE 9tH, 1727. 



THOMAS, 

YE SON OF THOMAS & MARY KIRKES, 

AGED 2 YEARS, 

DYED YE 25tH OF AUGUST, 1686. 

[Note,] This is the oldest gravestone which we have as yet discovered in this 



280 THE GRANARY BURIAL GROUND. 

HERE LIES BURIED THE BODY OF 

MR. SAMUEL HOLYOKE, 

SCHOOLMASTER, 

WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE MARCH THE 16, 1768, 

iETATIS 74. 



HERE IS INTERED THE BODY OF 

ELIZURE HOLYOKE, 

WHO DIED YE IItH DAY OF AUGUST, 1711, 
AGED ABOUT 60 YEARS. 



HERE LIETH BURIED THE BODY OP 

lOHN WISWALL, 

SERUANT OF JESUS CHRIST, 

ELDER OF THE FIRST CHURCH IN BOSTON, 

AGED 86 YEARS, 

DEPARTED THIS LIFE THE 17 DAY OF AUGUST, ANNO DOM. 1687. 



TOMB No. 49. 



INSCRIPTIONS. 281 

TOMB. 
GEORGE LEITNER, 
1811. 



HERE LYETH BURIED YE BODY OP 

EDMUND MOUNTFORT, SENIOR, 

BROTHER TO HENRY & BENJAMIN MOUNTFORT, 

LEFT ISSUE SIX SONS & TWO DAUGHTERS, 

DECEASED IN YE 61 YEAR OF HIS AGE, 

UPON YE 14tH day op AUGUST, 1690. 

[Note.] This stone stands due north of the Franklin Monument, near the wall. 



HERE LYES BURIED YE BODY OP 

MRS. ELIZABETH ALLEN, 

WIFE OP CAPT. THOMAS ALLEN, 

ONELY CHILD OF MR. JOSEPH AND MRS. MARY BALLARD, 

AGED 28 YEARS AND 2 MO. 

dec'd APRIL 15th, 1766. 

ALSO, 
HER INFANT CHILD, 4 HOURS OLD. 



282 THE GRANARY BURIAL GROUND. 

TOMB No. 36. 
HEIRS OF PENN TOWNSEND ESQ. 

REPAIRED OCT'r, 1811. 



No. 39. 
CAPT. THOMAS ADDAMS TOMB. 



SAMUEL, 

son to mr. benjamin & mrs. katherine andrews, 

aged 10 years & 6 months, 

dec'd march ye 9th, 1735. 



No. 40. 

GEORGE LONGLEY'S TOMB, 

A. D. 1809. 



SARAH HVTCHINSON, 

AGED 4 YEARES, 
DECEASED THE 27 OF SEPTEMBER, 1677. 

[Note.] This is a small white stone 15 feet west of Franklin's Monument. 



INSCRIPTIONS. 283 

No. 42. 
MRS. MARY PERKINS TOMB, 
1821. 



JOHN, 

SON TO SAI\nJEL & MARTHA BR * ILL, 
AGED 3 YEARS & ONE MO. DIED NOUEMBER YE 23, 1702. 



HERE LYES YE BODY OF 

MARY W INNOCK , 

DAu'r to MR. JOSHUA & MRS. MARY WINNOCK, 
AGED 12 MONTHS & 10 DAYS, DEC'd AUGUST YE 30, 1727. 



HERE LIES BURIED THE BODY OF 

MR. JAMES KINNEY, 
dec'd may 23, 1755, aged 45 years. 



HERE LYES YE BODY OF 

MARTHA ALLIN, 

WIFE TO JONATHAN ALLIN. 

AGED 39 YEARS, 

DEO'd JANUARY YE SlST, 1715-16. 



MINOT FAMILY. 

BY LEMUEL SHATTUCK, ESQ. 

MiNOT, George, of Dorchester, Freeman in 1634, Representative in 
1635 and '36, was ruling elder of the church thirty years, and died 24th 
December, 1671, JSt. 78. He had sons, John, James, Stephen; Samuel, 
born 6th December, 1635, died 18th December, 1690 ; James, of Dor- 
chester, son of the preceding, was born 31st December, 1628, married 
Hannah, daughter of Israel Stoughton, and died 30th March, 1676. His 
children were Israel, born 18th October, 1654 ; George, born 14th No- 
vember, 1655 ; James, born 2d April, 1659 ; William, born 18th Sep- 
tember, 1662 ; James, of Dorchester, 1634, Boston, 1645, was son of 
Thomas Minot, Esq., Saffron-Walden, England. John, of Dorchester, 
son of George Minot, was born in England, in 1626. His sons were : 
1. James, born 18th September 1653, graduated at Harvard College 
1675, settled in Concord. 2. John, who died of small-pox, 6th April, 
1690, leaving several sons. 3. Stephen, born 10th August, 1662, settled 
in Boston, was grandfather of Stephen, who graduated at Harvard Col- 
lege 1730, who died 14th January, 1787, M. 75, whose son George 
Richards Minot, who graduated at Harvard College 1778, is the well- 
known historian of Massachusetts. 4. Samuel, born 3d July, 1665. 
Stephen, of Dorchester, brother of the preceding, was born 6th May, 
1631, and died 13th February, 1671, leaving issue Thomas, one of the 
first settlers of New London, 1648. 

George Richards Minot, the historian, was born in Boston, December 



MINOT. 285 

28th, 1758. Distinguislied in early life by the love of learning, graceful 
modesty, and amiable manners. He was peculiarly endeared while at 
school to his excellent instructor, Mr. Lovell, and in college he secured 
the esteem of the governors of the institution, and the warmest attach- 
ment of his companions. He was graduated in 1778. Having j)ursued 
the study of the law, under the care of William Tudor, he began its 
practice with a high reputation, and with fixed principles and habits. 
But his attention was immediately diverted from his profession by his 
appointment as clerk of the House of Representatives in 1781, soon after 
the new constitution had commenced its operation. 

While in this station, the duties of which he discharged with the 
greatest fidelity and impartiality, the causes which produced the insur- 
rection were operating, and he had an opportunity of being well acquainted 
with the proceedings of the House. 

Of these transactions he wrote a sketch, which was published in the 
Boston Magazine for 1784 and 1785. 

After the insurrection was suppressed he wrote a history of it, which 
was praised equally for its truth, moderation, perspicuity, and elegance. 

Of the convention in Mass., which considered the Constitution of the 
United States, he was chosen the Secretary. In January, 1792, he was 
appointed Judge of Probate of the county of Sufi"olk, and several years 
afterwards Judge of the Municipal Court in Boston. He died January 
2, 1802, aged 43. Amidst the violence of parties, his mildness, candor, 
and moderation gained him the respect of all. His conversation was 
interesting, for his mind was stored with various knowledge, and there 
was a modesty and benignity in his character which attracted and de- 
lighted. Humble and devout, he complied with the ordinances of Chris- 
tianity, and trusted entirely to the mercy of God for salvation. He pub- 
lished an oration on the Boston Massacre, March 5, 1782 ; history of 
the insurrection in Mass., 1788 ; an address to the Charitable Fire Soci- 
ety, 1795 ; eulogy on Washington, 1800 ; a continuation of the history 
of Massachusetts Bay, from 1748 to 1765, with an introductory sketch 
of events from its original settlement. The first volume of this work, 
which is a continuation of Hutchinson, was published in 8vo. 1798 ; the 



286 THE GEANARY BUEIAL GROUND. 

second volume was completed at the time of his death, and it has since 
been published. The narrative is perspicuous, and the style pure, and a 
model of historical eloquence. 

Explanation of the Plan in preparing the Memoir. 

In the following Memoir the numbers inserted in the parentheses on 
the left, are the numbers of the paragraphs, each, generally, containing a 
notice of one entire family. The Roman numbers immediately after in- 
dicate the generation of the family, including the first person named. 
The descendants are doubly numbered — first in consecutive order, and 
secondly by each family separately. The figures in brackets after the 
name refer back to these numbers of the descendants, indicating the 
family and connections to which the individual belongs. The numbers 
inserted in the parentheses on the right, against the name of a child, show 
the subsequent paragraph where a notice of the family of such child may 
be found. 

It is impossible to present a memoir of this kind, which shall be en- 
tirely free from error, perfect and complete. In existing families, births, 
marriages, and deaths, are constantly occurring, and in more ancient 
ones new facts are often discovered. Such facts it is desirable to have 
entered ; and such a plan as would aHo\y their insertion without re-writing 
the memoir will be preferred. By leaving some space in the original 
entries, the plan admits of correction, amplification, and extension, with- 
out marring its simplicity and beauty. . 

MEMOIR. 

(1) All by the name of Minot in America are supposed to have de- 
scended from George Minot, whose posterity forms the subject of this 
memoir. There was a Thomas Minot, probably a brother, who was a 
proprietor of Barbadoes in 1638, but I can neither trace his history, nor 
ascertain that he left posterity. None of the name could be found in 
the New York or Philadelphia Directories for 1846. The family are all 
descended from Thomas Minot, Esq., Secretary to the Abbot of Walden, 
England, by whom he was advanced to great possessions. 



MINOT. 287 

FIRST GEI^EEATION. . 

(2) I. Elder George Minot was the son of Thomas Minot, Esq., of 
Saffron-Walden, Essex, England, and was b. August 4, 1594. He was 
among the first Pilgrim emigrants to Massachusetts, and the first settlers 
of Dorchester. His place of residence was near Neponset Bridge, and 
he owned the land which has been known as "Squantum." He was 
made a freeman in 1634, and represented the town in 1635 and 1636. 
He was a ruling elder in the church thirty years, and d. Dec. 24, 1671, 
in the 78th year of his age. He left a will, which is recorded in the 
Suffolk Kecords, Vol. VII. p. 189. The inventory of his estate amounted 
to £277. 7. 7. " His death," say the records, " was much lamented by 
the town, whose weal he sought and liberties defended." He was a con- 
temporary with Elder Humphrey ; and it is said the following lines were 
once to be found on a gravestone in the ancient burying-ground in Dor- 
chester : — 

Here lie the bodies of Unite Humphrey and Shining Minot, 

Snch names as these, they never die not. 

Mr. Minot's wife, Martha, d. in Dorchester, Dec. 28, 1657, a. 60. He 

left the following children : 

2—1 John, b. April 2, 1626, m. Lydia Butler, May 19, 1647. (3) 

3 — 2 James, b. Dec. 31, 1628, m. Hannah Stoughton, Dec. 9, 1653. (4) 
4—3 Stephen, b. May 2, 1631, m. Trucrosse Davenport, Nov. 10, 1654. (5) 
5—4 Samuel, b. Dec. 18, 1635, m. Hannah Howard, June 23, 1670. (6) 

SECOND GENERATION. 

(3) 11. Capt. John Minot [2 — 1] was m. by Governor Dudley to Lydia 
Butler of Dorchester, May 19, 1647. She d. Jan. 24, 1667, at the birth 
of her sixth child. He m. a second time Mary Biggs of Boston, widow 
of John Biggs, who d, in 1666, and the daughter of John Dasset. He d. 
in Dorchester, Aug. 12, 1669, a. 43. She d. about 1677. They both 
left wills. His is recorded in Suffolk Records, Vol. VI. p. 39, and hers, 
Vol. VI. p. 262. His estate was prized at £978. 5. An anecdote in 
relation to John Minot is found in Dwight's Travels, Vol. III. p. 125, and 
in Hutchinson's Hist. Mass. Vol. I. p. 288. He left the following children : 



288 THE GRANARY BURIAL GROUND. 

6—1 John, b. Jan. 22, 1647, m. Elisabeth Brick, March 11, 1670. (7) 
7—2 James, b. Sept. 14, 1653, m. Rebecca Wheeler. (8) 
8—3 Martha, b. Sept. 22, 1657, d. single, Nov. 23, 1678, a. 21. She was en- 
gaged to be married, but d. unmarried, leaving a will, in which she di- 
rected that at her funeral her betrothed husband, " John Morgan, Jr. 
be all over mourning, and follow next after me." 
9—4 Stephen, b. Aug. 10, 1662, m. Mary. Clark, Dec. 1, 1686. (9) 
10 — 5 Samuel, b. July 3, 1666, m. Hannah Jones of Concord. (10) 
11 — 6 An infant, d. in infancy. 

(4) II. James Minot [3—2] d. in Dorchester, March 30, 1676, a. 48. 
He left no will. His estate was prized at £555. IS. 6. He m. 1st, Dec. 
9, 1653, Hannah Stoughton, dau. of Col. Israel Stoughton, and sister of 
the Hon. Wm. Stoughton, Lieut. Gov. of Massachusetts. She was b. 
April, 1637, admitted to the church, 1662, and d. March 12, 1670, a. 33. 
He m. 2nd, Hephzibah Corlet, sister of Amis Corlet, May 21, 1673, in 
Cambridge. After Mr. Minot's death, she m. Daniel Champney, June 
4, 1684. Mr. Minot had the following children : 

12—1 Israel, b. Oct. 18, 1654, d. unmarried. 

13—2 George, b. Nov. 14, 1655. 

14_3 Hannah, b. , 1657, d. Feb. 16, 1659. 

15—4 James, b. April 2, 1659, m. Rebecca Jones, Feb. 9, 1686. (11; 

16—5 Wilham, b. Sept. 18, 1662. 

17—6 EUsabeth, b. Dec. 27, 1663, m. John Danforth, Nov. 21, 1682. 

18 — 7 Mehetabel, b. Sept. 17, 1668, m. 1. Thomas CoojDcr, 2. Solomon Stoddard, Esq. 

(5) II. Stephen Minot [4—3] d. in Dorchester, Feb. 16, 1671, a. 40, 
intestate, leaving an estate of £651. 4. 7. He m. Truecrosse Davenport, 
Nov. 10, 1654. She d. Aug. 3, 1692, a. 58. They had 

19—1 Martha, b. Sept. 22, 1657, d. Oct. 11, 1683. 
20—2 Jonathan, b. Sept. 11, 1658, d. Nov. 29, 1658. 
21—3 Elisabeth, d. Nov. 24, 1663. 

22 — 4 Mehetabel, b. June 4, 1665, m. Edward Mills of Boston. She d. Aug. 16, 

1690, leaving one son, Stephen Mills. 
23—5 EUsabeth, b. June 10, 1672, after the death of her father. She and Stephen 

Mills inherited Mr. Minot's property. 

(6) II. Samuel Minot [5 — 4] d. in Dorchester, Dec. 18, 1690. He 
m. Hannah Howard, June 23, 1670. They had two children ; 



MINOT. 289 

24—1 George, b. 1675. , 

25—2 Samuel, b. Nov. 23, 1688, d. June 1, 1689. 

THIRD GENERATION. 

(7) III. John Minot [6—1] d. Jan. 26, 1690. His will is recorded 
in the Suffolk Records, Vol. VII. p. 64. His estate was prized at 
£680. 17. He m. Elizabeth Brick, March 11, 1670, who d. April 6, 
1690. They both d. in Dorchester of the small-pox. Their children 
were 

26—1 John, b. Oct. 10, 1672, m. Mary Baker, May 21, 1696, (12) 
27—2 Israel, b. Aug. 23, 1676. 
28—3 Josiah, b. Dec. 27, 1677. 
29—4 Jerusha, b. Jan. 28, 1679. 
30—5 George, b. Aug. 16, 1682. 

(8) III. James Minot, Esq., [7—2] was b. Sept. 14, 1653, and grad- 
uated at H. C. in 1675. He studied divinity and physic. He kept the 
grammar-school in Dorchester in 1659, but soon after removed to Con- 
cord, where he was employed as a teacher and physician. In 1685, he 
was hired to preach in Stow, for 12. 6 per day, one half cash and one 
half Indian corn ;" and again in 1686 for " what older towns had given 
their ministers — £13 for 13 Sabbaths." In 1692 he had another appli- 
cation to preach there, which he declined. Relinquishing the profession 
soon after, he was appointed Justice of the Peace in 1692, and a Captain 
of the militia, then offices of much distinction. He represented the town 
several years in General Court, was much employed in various public 
trusts, and distinguished himself for his talents and excellent character. 
He d. Sept. 20, 1735, a. 83. He m. Rebecca, dau. of Capt. Timothy 
Wheeler, the founder of the ministerial fund in Concord, and inherited 
the homestead of his father-in-law, near the residence of the Hon. Daniel 
Shattuck, where he died. She d. Sept. 23, 1734, a. 68. The following 
are the epitaphs on the gravestones erected to their memories, now stand- 
ing in the " Hill Burying-Ground," in Concord. 

19 



290 THE GBANARY BUKIAL GROUND, 

HERE IS 
INTERRED THE REMAINS 
OF 

JAMES MINOTT, Esq., A. M. 

AN EXCELLING GRAMMARIAN, 

ENRICHED 

WITH THE GITT OF PRAYER AND PREACHING, 



A COMMANDING OFFICER 



A PHYSICIAN OF GREAT VALUE, 

A GREAT LOVER OF PEACE AS WELL AS OF JUSTICE, 

AND 

WHICH WAS HIS GREATEST GLORY, 

A GENt'n 

0? DISTINGUISHED VIRTUE AND GOODNESS, 

HAPPY IN A VIRTUOUS POSTERITY, 

AND LIVING RELIGIOUSLY, 

DIED COMFORTABLY, 

SEPT. 20, 1735, 

iET. 83. 



MINOT. 291 

HERE IS 

INTERED THE BODY 

OF 

MRS. REBECCA MINOTT, 

YE VIRTUOUS CONSORT OF 

JAMES MINOTT, ESQ. 

(and DAUGHTER OF CAPT. TIMOTHY WHEELER,) 

SHE WAS A PERSON OF 

SERIOUS PIETY 

AND ABOUNDING CHARITY, 

OF GREAT USEFULNESS IN HER DAY, 

AND 

A PATTERN OF PATIENCE 

AND HOLY SUBMISSION 

UNDER A LONG CONFINEMENT, 



RESIGNED HER SOUL WITH JOY IN HER 

SEPT. 23, 1734, 



292 THE GEANARY BURIAL GROUND. 

The following were children of James Minot, Esq. ; 

31—1 Rebecca, b. Feb. 9, 1685, m. Joseph Barrett, Dec. 27, 1701. (13) 
32— 2 Lydia, b. March 12, 1G87, m. Benjamin Barrett, Jan. 3,1705. (14) 
33—3 Mary, b. Nov. 16, 1689, m. Ebenezer Wheeler, Sept. 26, 1706. 
34—4 Timothy, b. June 18, 1692, m. 1. Mary Brooks— 2. Beulah Brown. (15) 
35—5 James, b. Oct. 17, 1694, m. 1. Martha Lane— 2. Elisabeth Merrick. (16) 
36—6 Elisabeth, b. Jan. 29, 1697, m. Daniel Adams, April 23, 1715. (17) 

37—7 Martha, b. April 3, 1699, m. James Lane, April 30, 1719. She d. Jan. 

18, 1739, in Bedford, a. 40. 
38—8 Love, l^ _ m. John Adams, Dec. 13, 1722. (18) 

39—9 Mercy, i f ^' ^"^ ^'''' ^^^^' m. Samuel Dakin, Dec. 13, 1722. (19) 

40-10 Samuel, b. March 25, 1706, m. 1. Sarah Prescott, 2. Dorcas Prescott (20) 

In the above family, two sisters married two brothers by the name of 
Barrett ; two other sisters married brothers by the name of Adams ; a 
brother and a sister married a brother and a sister by* the name of Lane, 
and two were born the same day and married the same day. 

There are few parents who have so great reason to be " happy in a 
virtuous posterity," as had these. One son was a minister, another was 
a deacon, and eight of the grandchildren were deacons or married to 
deacons ; several were clergymen or married to clergymen. Very many 
of the great-grandchildrcH sustained the same offices, or were otherwise 
distinguished in military, civil, or religious life. A large proportion of 
those who arrived at mature age professed religion ; and the succeeding 
and numerous families were among the most respectful, useful, and influ- 
ential in the towns in which they lived. Very many distinguished men 
descended from them ; among whom were Rev. Stephen and Hon. 
Timothy Farrar of New Ipswich, N. H., Roger Minot Sherman, of Fair- 
field, Ct., and several eminent physicians by the name of Adams ; and 
Hon. Roger Sherman, and several other distinguished men of New Haven 
married descendants. 

(9) III. Stephen Minot [9 — 4] d. in Sudbury street, Boston. He 
left a will, recorded in Suffolk Records, Vol. XXXI. p. 82. He was a 
merchant and member of Biattle street Church ; married Mary Clark, 
dau. of Capt. Christopher Clark, Dec. 1, 1686. They had the following 
children : 



MINOT. 293 

41—1 Rebecca, b. Aug. 20, 1687, d. Aug. 26 of the same year. 

42—2 Stephen, b. Oct. 27, 1688, m. 1. Sarah Wainwright ; 2. Mary Browu. (21) 

43—3 John, b. Dec. 27, 1690, d. at Brunswick,' Jan. 11, 1764. 

44 — 4 Mehetabel, b. Dec. 6, 1692, was engaged to be married to Richard Bills 
when her father made his will. 

45—5 Lydia, b. May 15, 1695, m. Joseph Eaton, May 10, 1720 ; had one dau. 

46—6 Rebecca, b. Nov. 6, 1697, m. Samuel MiUer, Oct. 8, 1724. 

47—7 George, b. Jan. 21, 1700, d. Nov. 13, 1702, of the small-pox. 

48—8 Peter, b. March 4, 1702, d. Oct. 30, 1702, of the smaU-pox. 

49 — 9 George, b. Jan. 29, 1 70-, m. Elisabeth Moore of North Carolina, by whom 
he had a son who d. in infancy, and a dau. Sarah who m. Nathaniel Tay- 
lor, Esq., an officer of the customs in Boston. Mr. Minot d. Jan. 18, 1785. 
He was a merchant, and owned the T wharf in Boston. 

50-10 Christopher, b. gr. at H. C. 1725, was an officer of the customs in 

Boston until 1776, when he removed to Halifax, where he d. unmarried. 
May 12, 1783, a. 77. 

51-11 Peter, b. m. was drowned at Halifax with his wife. 

52-12 James, b. was a merchant at Jamaica, where he d. unmamed. 

(10) III. Samuel Minot [10 — 5] m. Hannah Jones of Concord. He 
d. young, and Lis only son Jonathan Minot was in Concord, in 1707, 
being then 14 years old, when he chose his uncle John Minot of Dor- 
chester his guardian, 

(11) III. James Minot [15 — 4] lived in Concord, where he m. Re- 
becca Jones, Feb. 9, 1688. She was the dau. of John Jones. He d. 
leaving one son, and she m. for her second husband Capt. Joseph 
Bulkeley, March 9, 1566, by whom she had several children. She d. 
July 12, 1712, a. 50. Two of her children, Rebecca and Dorothy, men- 
tioned below, were by Capt. Bulkeley, her second husband, and are 
therefore not numbered with the Minot Family, not being descendants. 
That there may be no misunderstanding, their surname is inserted, 

54—1 Jonathan, b. m. Elisabeth Stratton, Jan. 26, 1714. (22) 

2 Rebecca Bulkeley, b. Dec. 25, 1696, m. Joseph Hubbard, Nov. 10, 1713. 

3 Dorothy Bulkeley, b. Jan. 7, 1699, m. Samuel Hunt, Nov. 14, 1716. 
About 1725 Jonathan Minot of Westford, (then part of Chelmsford,) 

and Joseph Hubbard sold to TLomas Jones of Concord, " the whole of 
the right of their mother, Rebecca Bulkeley, deceased in Acton, allowed 



294 THE GRANARY BURIAL GROUND. 

to the heirs of her father John Jones, and to Dorothy Hunt, deceased, 
the former wife of Samuel Hunt, one of the heirs of Rebecca Bulkeley " 
Joseph Hubbard was the ancestor of most of the name in Concord. 

FOURTH GENERATION. 

(12) IV. John Minot [26 — 1] m. Mary Baker of Dorchester, where 
he lived as a farmer. She d. Feb. 18, 1717. He m. for his 2nd wife 
Hannah Endecott, Nov. 14, 1717, and d. soon after. His wife adminis- 
tered on the estate, prized at £1221. He had the following children, all 
by his first wife : 

55—1 EHsabeth, b. June 6, 1699, d. young. 

56—2 John, b. June 1, 1701. 

57—3 George, b. Sept. 7, 1703, m, Abigail Fenno, Dec. 24, 1724. (23) 

58—4 Mary, b. Dec. 10, 1705, d. in infancy. 

59—5 Mary, b. March 9, 1708. 

60—6 Elisabeth, b. Feb. 23, 1711, m. Thomas Wyer, Jan. 27, 1729. 

(13) IV, Capt. Joseph Barrett, son of Dea. Humphrey Barrett, and 
a grandson of Humphrey Barrett, who came from England to Concord 
ab. 1640, b. in Concord, Jan. 31, 1678, m. Rebecca Minot [31—1] Dec. 
27, 1701. He was a farmer, and lived where Abel B. Haywood now 
[1847] lives. He d. April 4, 1736, a. 58. She d. June 23, 1738, a. 53. 
Their children were : 

61—1 Mary, b. April 6, 1706, m. Dea. George Farrar. (24) 

62 — 2 Joseph, b. Jan. 30, 1708, m. and settled in Grafton, where he d. leaving 

two daughters. 
63—3 Rebecca, b. July 12, 1710. 

64—4 Oliver, b. Jan. 12, 1712, m. Hannah Hunt, Dec. 8, 1738. (25) 
65—5 Humphrey, b. Oct. 24, 1715, m. Elisabeth Adams, Dec. 9, 1742. (26) 
66— 6 Elisabeth, b. Jan. 9, 1717, m. Col. Charles Prescott. (27)- 
67—7 John, b. Feb. 14, 1720, m. Lois Brooks, Nov. 15, 1744. (28) 

68—8 Samuel, b. July 8, 1725, d. Jan. 1728. 

(14) IV. Capt. Benjamin Barrett, brother of the preceding, b. May 
7, 1681, m. Lydia Minot [32—2] Jan. 3, 1705. He was a farmer, and 
lived in Concord, where James Barrett now (1847) lives, and where he 
d. of the pleurisy fever, Oct. 28, 1728, a. 47. His widow m. Samuel 
Stow. Mr. Barrett had the following children : 



MINOT. 295 

69—1 Benjamin, b. Nov. 15, 1705, m. Rebecca Jones. (29) 

70 — 2 Thomas, b. Oct. 2, 1707, m. Mary Jones. (30) 

71—3 James, b. July 31, 1710, m. Rebecca Hubbard, Dec. 21, 1732. (31) 

72—4 Lydia, b. Aug. 2, 1712, m. Dea. Samuel Farrar, Jan. 31, 1732. (32) 

73—5 Rebecca, b. March 29, 1714, m. Elnathan Jones, Jan. 31, 1732. She 
d. Feb. 8, 1733, without issue. 

74 — 6 Timothy, b. Jan. 13, 1716, m. widow Dinah Witt, lived in Paxton, was a 
deacon, had one dau. Persis, b. Feb. 3, 1752, who m. Ithamer Bigelow of 
Shrewsbury, Feb. 16, 1769, had 7 children. Mrs. Barrett d. ab. 1754. He 
was afterwards twice m. but had no other children. He d. Jan. 4, 1800, 
a. 83. 

75—7 Mary, b. Dec. 27, 1717, d. without issue. 

76—8 Stephen, b. April 18, 1720, m. Elisabeth Hubbard, then widow Howe of Con- 
cord, and settled in Paxton. He left 3 sons and 1 daughter ; Stephen 
Israel, Benjamin, and Lydia. The sons removed to Whitestown, near 
Utica, N. Y., aU married and had families. The dau. m. Israel Stone of 
Portland, and went to Ohio. She had a large family. 

(15) IV. Rev. Timothy Minot [34—4] gr. H. C. 1718, m. 1. Mary 
Brooks, wlio d. Feb. 15, 1760, a. 61, and "her name," says the record 
of her death, "is like precious ointment." His 2d wife was widow 
Beulah Brown of Sudbury, who d. April 13, 1786, a. 92. He d. Nov. 
30, 1778, a. 86. A biographical notice of this distinguished man is given 
in Shattuck's History of Concord, p. 244. He gr. H. C. 1718. His 
children were : 

77— 1 Timothy, b. AprD 8, 1726, m. Mary Martin. (33) 
78—2 Mary, b. Dec. 27, 1730, m. TiUy Merrick, July 30, 1752. (34) 
79 — 3 Stephen, b. Jan. 30, 1732, gr. H. C. 1751, was about to settle as a minis- 
ter at Portland, but d. Sept. 3, 1759, a. 27. 

(16) IV. Hon. James Minot [35—5] d. in Concord, Feb. 6, 1759, a. 
64. He m. 1. Martha Lane of Billerica, Nov. 14, 1716. She d. Jan. 
18, 1735, a. 40. He m. 2. Elisabeth Merrick of Brookfield, in 1736, 
She d. Jan. 26, 1746. He m. a third wife, but her name is not recorded. 
The following epitaph is copied from his gravestone in the " Hill Bury- 
ing-Ground," in Concord ; and tradition awards to him all the praise it 
pays to his distinguished character. He held a military commission 
thirty years. 



296 THE GKANAKY BURIAL GROUND. 

HERE LYE THE REMAINS OF 

COL. JAMES MINOTT, Esqr. 

WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE FEB. 6, 1759, 
IN THE 65TH YEAR OF HIS AGE. 

HE WAS OF HONL. DESCENT, EARLY IMPROVED & ADVANCED 

IN CIVIL AND MILITARY AFFAIRS, 

DIVERS YEARS REPRESENTED THIS TOWN AT THE 

GENERAL COURT ; WAS A JUSTICE OF THE 

PEACE, AND ONE OF THE HON. HIS 

MAJESTIE's COUNCIL FOR MANY 

YEARS, WHICH OFFICES HE 

SUSTAINED UNTIL 

HIS DEATH, 

IN ALL WHICH STATIONS AND RELATIONS OF LIFE 

HE BEHAVED AS THE CHRISTIAN, THE PATRIOT, AND 

THE BENEVOLENT FRIEND, 

AND AS HE MERITED, SO HE WAS MUCH 

LOVED AND HONORED IN HIS LIFE AND LAMENTED AT 

HIS DEATH. 

MEMENTO MORI. 

" FROM death's arrest NO AGE IS FREE." 



MINOT. 297 

The following were the children of Hon. James Minot, the first three 
by his first, and the last two by his second wife : 

80—1 John, b. Aug. 31, 1717, m. Sarah Stow, Jan. 26, 1744. (35) 

81—2 Rebecca, b. May 15, 1720, m. Benjamin Prescott, Aug. 12, 1741. (36) 
82—3 James, b. Jan. 20, 1726, m. ' (37) 

83—4 Martha, b. Feb. 1, 1738, m. Rev. Josiah Shennan, Jan. 24, 1757. (38) 
84 — 5 Ephraim, b. June 17, 1742, m. Abigail Prescott, Sept. 25, 1764. (39) 

(17) IV. Capt. Daniel Adams lived in the south part of Lincoln, 
then within the limits of Concord, on the road from Waltham to Stow, 
where he d. Feb. 9, 1780, a. 90. He was the son of Joseph, and grand- 
son of John Adams, one of the eight sons of Henrj' of Quinc}' . He m. 
Elisabeth Minot, [36— G] April 23, 1715. She d. Nov. 12, 1764, a. 
67. They had the following children : 

85—1 Daniel, b. Oct. 15, 1720, m. Keziah Brooks and two others. (40) 

86—2 Elisabeth, b. Oct. 1, 1722, m. Humphrey Barrett, Dec. 9, 1742. (26) 

87—3 Joseph, b. Oct. 5, 1724, m. Mary Eveleth of Stow, 1746. (41) 

88—4 Rebecca, b. Sept. 2, 1727, m. Nathan Brown, March 10, 1747. (42) 
89—5 James, b. March 19, 1732, m. 1. Keziah Conant- 2. Delia Adams. (43) 
90—6 Lydla, b. Sept. 1, 1735, m. Abel Miles, Feb. 26, 1756. (44) 

91—7 Martha, b. April 13, 1738, m. Joseph Wellington, April 1, 1760. 
92—8 Mary, b. May 18, 1730, m. 1. Peter Hubbard- 2. Capt. Timothy Wheeler, 
who had Martha, m. Joel Dix, who died in Boston in 1837, Joseph, and 
perhaps others. He was captain of the militia in Concord in April 19, 
1775. See Hist, of Concord, p. 107. 

These individuals had 69 children, averaging eight and five eighths 
each. 

(18) IV. John Adams, a brother of the above, lived near the centre 
of Lincoln, where he d. Oct. 25, 1725, a. 28. He was buried in " Hurd 
Burying-Ground" in Concord. He m. Love Minot, [38 — 8] sister to 
his brother's wife.- They had two children, 

93—1 John, h. Nov. 11, 1723. m. Lucy Hubbard, Dec. 12, 1749. (45) 
94 — 2 Lucy, b. Jan. 23, 1725, m. Rev. Wm. Lawrence of Lincoln. (46) 

(19) IV. Capt. Samuel Dakin was b. in Concord and lived in Sud- 
bury. He went as commander of a military company, commissioned by 
Grovernor Pownall, and was slain in a battle with the French and Indi- 



298 THE GRANARY BURIAL GROUND. 

ans at Half Way Bvook, near Lake George, July 20, 1758. He m. 
Mercy Minot, [39—0] Dec. 13, 1732. Their cliildren were : 

95—1 Oliver, b. March 30, 1727. 

96—2 Mercy, b. Sept. 12, 1729, d. young. 

97—3 Samuel, b. May 17, 1731. 

98—4 Amos, b. Jan. 29, 1732. 

99—5 Mercy, b. April 24, 1733. 
100—6 Elisabeth, b. Aug. 9, 1734. 

101—7 Beulah, b. March 22, 1735, m. Thomas Baker, Jan. 15, 1755. 

102—8 Timothy, b. June 7, 1737. 

103—9 Hannah, b. Aug. 28, 1739. 

104-10 Mary, b. Aug. 1741. 

105-11 Samuel, i ^ b. June 21, 1744, m. 1. Ann "Wheeler, 2. Mehetabel . 

106-12 j i' 

(20) IV. Dea. Samuel Minot [40 — 10] was a deacon in the Con- 
cord Church, where he d. March 17, 1766. He m. 1. Sarah Prescott of 
Westford, March 7, 1732, who d. in childbirth, March 22, 1737, a. 24, 
having had three children. He m. 2. Dorcas Prescott, sister of his first 
wife, in 1738. She d. June 16, 1803, a. 91. They had the following 
children : 

107 — 1 Samuel, b. Dec. 23, 1732, m. Elisabeth Davis, lived in Boston, 

had several children, all of whom d. young except Joanna. 
108—2 Jonas, b. April 25, 1735, m. Mary Hall of Westford. (47) 

109—3 Sarah Thankful, b. March 4, 1737, m. Dea. Ama Dakin of Mason, N. H. 
110—4 Dorcas Prescott, b. March 24, 1739, m. Thomas Barrett, Jr. Jan. 15, 1761. 
Ill — 5 George, b. Oct. 23, 1741, m. three wives by the name of Barrett. (48) 
112—6 Rebecca, b. Jan. 14, 1744, m. Charles Barrett of New Ipswich, 1799 
1I3— 7 Daniel, b. Aug. 29, 1748, d. Dec. 20, 1753, a. 6. 

114 — 8 Mary, b. Oct . 5, 1755, m. Elnathan Jones. 

(21) IV. Stephen Minot [42 — 2] lived in Boston. He m. for his 
first wife Sarah, eldest daughter of Col. Francis Wainwright. They 
lived together ten months, when she d. Oct. 21, 1711, in childbirth, 
leaving one child, Stephen. He m. for his second wife, Mary, daughter 
of Capt. John Brown of Marblehead, Jan. 1, 1713. They had the fol- 
lowing children : 



MINOT. 299 

115—1 Stephen, b. Sept. 21, 1711, m. Sarah Clark, Jnne 10, 1736. (49) 

116—2 John, b. 1712, d. in infancy. 

117 — 3 John, b. 1714, d. in infancy. 

118—4 John, b. 1716. 

119—5 Mary, b. May 28, 1718. 

120—6 WilUam, b. 1720. 

121—7 Elisabeth, b. June, 1722. 

122—8 Mehetabel, b. 1724, m. Walter Logan, Esq., an officer of the Cus- 

toms of Boston. He d. in Glasgow in Scotland, Nov. 10, 1788. 

123—9 Jane, b. Sept. 11, 1726, m. Capt. Nathaniel Williams of Roxbury. 

He d. 1774. They had one child, who d. in infancy. She m. again Eli- 
sha Brewster, merchant of Middletown, Ct., in 1778. 

124-10 George, b. 1728, d. in mfancy. 

125-11 George, b. 1730, gr. H. G. in 1752. 

126-12 Sarah, b. 1732. 

(22) IV. Jonathan Minot [54 — 1] lived in Westford, where he died. 
He m. Elisabeth Stratton of Concord, Jan. 26, 1714, by whom he had 
children 

127—1 Samuel b. Sept. 10, 1714, m. EUsabeth 

128—2 Elisabeth, b. Jan. 30, 1717. 

129—3 Rebecca, b. April 2, 1719. 

130—4 Jonathan, b. Jan. 19, 1723, m. Esther Proctor of Chelmsford. (50) 

131—5 Anna, b. Sept. 13, 1725. 

132—6 John, b. Dec. 16, 1730. 

Genealogical Register. 



300 THE GKANARY BURIAL GROUND. 

IN MEMORY OF 

MR. ABRAHAM HUBBELL, 

OF STAFFORD, IN CONNECTICUT, 

HE DEPARTED THIS LIFE IN BOSTON, THE HtH DAY OF MAY, 

A. D. 1783. 



HERE LYES YE BODY OP 

MR. SAMUEL JOHNSTON, 

SON TO MR. GEORGE & MRS. EUPHEMA JOHNSTON, 
AGED 22 YEARS, 

dec'd AUG, YE 15th. 1739. 



HERE LYES YE BODY OF 

MRS. EUPHEMA JOHNSTON, 

IFE TO MR. GEORGE J0HN8T0] 
AGED 48 YEARS, 

dec'd fe:5. YE 26, 1740. 



HERE LIES THE BODY OF 

MR. ROBERT MCNIEL, 

AGED 35 YEARS, 

DIED SEPT. 18th, 1752. 



INSCRIPTIONS. 301 

HERE LIES BURIED THE BODY OF 

CAPT. JOHN DECOSTER, 

WHO DIED JAN. YE 28tH, 1773 
AGED 26 YEARS. 



■ STOP HERE, MY FRIENDS, AND CAST AN EYE, 
• AS YOU ARE NOW, SO ONCE WAS I, . 
AS I AM NOW, SO YOU MUST BE, 
" PREPARE FOR DEATH k FOLLOW ME." 



-t 



HERE LIES THE BODY OF 

MRS. WAITSTILL TROTT, 

THE WIFE OF MR. THOMAS TROTT, 
SHE DIED JUNE YE 8tH, 1744, IN THE 39tH YEAR OF HER AGE- 



WILLIAM, 

SON TO THOMAS k WAITSTILL TROTT, 
AGED 14 MONTHS, 

dec'd dec'r YE 14th, 1731. 
ELISABETH, 

DAu't. TO THOMAS & WAITSTILL TROTT, 
AGED 16 MO.nTHS AND 18 DAYS, DEC'd SEPT. YE 2d, 1732. 



302 THE GRANARY BURIAL GROUND. 

No. 55. 

DAVID TOWNSEND. 

1810. 

MAJOR JOHN WENDELL, 

HIS DESCENDANTS & THEIR FAMILIES, 



HERE LIES THE BODY OP 

EZRA DIBBLE, 

SON OF EZRA DIBBLE, OF DANBURY, 

IN YE COLLONV OF CONNECTICUTT, 

DEC'd JUNE YE 19th, 1738, AGED ABOUT 17 YEARS. 



DEACON THOMAS PAYSON. 



TOMB No. 43. 
CHARLES BRADBURY. 



No. 44. 

THE TOMB OF 

JAMES MORRILL & SAM'L WHITWELL. 



INSCKIPTIONS. 303 

No. 57. 
TOMB OF THOMAS JACKSON, 
1810. 



JOHN DOLBEARE'S TOMB, 

BUILT 1725. 



JOHN DYER'S FAMILY TOMB, 

1816. 



JOHN, 

YE SON OF JOHN & MARY COLESWORTHY, 

AGED 2 MO. & 1 DAY, 

DIED NOUEM. YE 19, 1696. 



No. 53. 
PETER DOLLIVER TO B. HUNTINGTON, 

1822. 



YOUNG & TUCKERMAN'S TOMB. 



LOWEL. 

John Lowel (or Lowle), of Newbury, was a freeman in 1641. He 
was son of Percival Lowle, and died July 10, 1647. His children 
were : Joseph, horn Nov. 28, 1639 ; Benjamin, born Sept. 12, 1642 ; 
Thomas, born June 4, 1644 ; Elizabeth, born 1646 ; she married Philip 
Nelson, of Rowley. John, of Boston, 1655, who probably died June 7, 
1694. He had a son, John, born Aug. 26, 1655. John, of Weymouth, 
1658, had a son John, born in 1658. Percival, a merchant, came from 
Bristol, England, with his sons, Richard and John, also merchants, and 
settled, in Newbury, where he died Jan. 8, 1665. Richard, son of the 
preceding, was born about 1602, and lived in Newbury. He died Aug. 
5, 1682. William, of Massachusetts, was admitted freeman in 1642. 
Ebenezer Lowel, of Boston, died in Boston in 1711, aged 36. His son 
John Lowel, was a minister in Ncwburyport. He was born IMarch 14, 
1704; graduated at Harvard College in 1721, was ordained over the 
third church in Newbury Jan. 19, 1726, and died May 15, 1767, aged 
63. Mr. Gary was his successor. He was amiable, candid, liberal, and 
social, respected for his learning, and a useful minister. He published 
a sermon at the ordination of T. Barnard, 1738 ; before Col. Titcomb 
and his soldiers, 1755; on the death of Col. Moses Titcomb, who fell 
near Lake Greorge, 1760. 

Hon. John Lowel, LL.D., also a Judge, was a son of the preceding, 
graduated at Harvard College 1760. Having settled at Boston, as a 
lawyer, he was chosen a member of Congress in 1781 ; of the Conven- 
tion which formed the Constitution of Massachusetts, he was a distin- 



LOWEL. 305 

guished member. In 1789, Washington appointed him Judge of the 
District Court ; and on the new organization of the Courts of the United 
States, in February, 1801, he was appointed Chief Judge of the first 
Circuit. He died at Roxbury, May 6", 1802, aged 58. Uniting to a 
vigorous mind, which was enriched with literary acquisitions, a refined 
taste and conciliatory manners, and being sincere in the profession and 
practice of religion, his decease was deeply felt and lamented. For 
eighteen years he was a member of the corporation of Harvard College, 
and one of the founders of the American Academy. His son, Francis 
C, proprietor of the Lowell factories, died in 1817. His sons John 
and Charles, were living in 18 — . He wrote an English poem. No. 3, 
in the '' Pilas," &c., printed at Cambridge. He pronounced before the 
American Academy of Arts and Sciences, in January, 1791, an elegant 
eulogy on their late President, James Bowdoin, which is prefixed to the 
memoirs of that Society. 



20 



306 



THE GRANAKY BURIAL GROUND. 



HERE LYES BURIED 
THE BODY OF 

MRS. KATHERINE CLARKE, 

WIFE TO 

MR. JAMES CLARKE, 

WHO DIED SEPT. THE lOTH, 1747, 

IN THE 32D YEAR OF 

HER AGE. 



HERE LYES BURIED 
THE BODY OF 

MRS. CHRISTIAN CLARKE, 

WIFE TO 
MR. JAMES CLARKE, 

AGED 32 YEARS, 

DIED MARCH YE 1ST, 

1745-6. 



HERE LIES BURIED THE BODY OF 

FREDERICK CLARKE, 

SON OF MR. JOHN &, MRS. MARGARETT CLARKE, 

WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE MAY YE 13TH, 

1760, 

IN THE 22D YEAR OF HIS AGE. 



HERE LYES YE BODY OF 

JOHN CLARK, 

SON OF YE REV. PETER CLARK, 

OF DANVERSE, 

&, MRS. DEBORAH, HIS WIFE, 

WHO DIED JAN'Y lOTH, 175( 




CLARK. 



Arthur Clark, of Hampton, was admitted freeman in 1640. The 
name of Clark is a very common one ; it is sometimes spelled Clarke, 
but more frequently the e is omitted. One hundred and four persons 
of the name had graduated at the New England and at Princeton and 
Union Colleges in 1826, of whom twenty-eight have been settled minis- 
ters. Daniel, of Ipswich, 1635. Hutchinson names a Daniel Clarke, 
and Rev. Mr. Felt gives the name of David Clark, of Ipswich, at an 
early period. Daniel was a Magistrate of Connecticut in 1662, and 
Secretary of the Colony in 1660. Edmund, of Lynn, in 1636, removed 
to Sandwich in 1637. Henry, of Connecticut, was a Magistrate in 
1648, and many years afterwards. Hugh, of Watertown, in 1640, three 
of whose children were, John, born Oct. 18, 1641 ; Uriah, born April 



308 THE GEAXAKY BURIAL GROUND. 

5, 1644; Elizabeth, born Nov. 6, 1647. There was a Hugh Clark, 
probably the same who was admitted freeman in 1660, member of the 
ancient and honorable Artillery Company 1666, and who died at Rox- 
bury, July 20, 1693. Elizabeth, his wife, died in 1692. Jeremiah, of 
Rhode Island, was President of the Colony in 1648. He was probably 
one of the brothers of John Clark, one of the founders of the Colony. 
John, of Cambridge, freeman in 1632, probably went with Rev. Thomas 
Hooker to Connecticut, where several of the name were early in public 
life. John, a physician, and one of the founders of the Rhode Island 
Colony, came, according to tradition, from Bedfordshire, England, and 
settled in Massachusetts, from whence he was driven before 1638. He 
was Treasurer of Rhode Island Colony, and a minister. He died April 
20, 1676. He had three brothers, ancestors to a large family in Rhode 
Island. John, the first physician in Newbury, in 1638, admitted free- 
man in 1639, Representative to the September session that year ; re- 
moved to Boston, where he was much distinguished as a physician, and 
died in January, 1665, aged 66. John, son of the preceding, was a 
physician, and admitted freeman 1673 ; representative in 1689 and 
1690, and died Dec. 17, 1690. His son John was bom Jan. 27, 1686, 
graduated at Harvard College 1687, was Representative of Boston from 
1708 to 1714, and 1720 to" 1724; chosen Speaker 1709, 1720-1723; 
was also a Councillor, and died Dec. 6, 1728. John, of Massachusetts, 
admitted freeman 1635, may have been the John Clark who removed to 
Rhode Island. Joseph, of Dedham, freeman 1635 ; had sons, Joseph, 
born 1642, Benjamin, 1643, and Ephraim, 1645. Joseph, of Newport, 
1644 ; one of the founders of the first Baptist Church in that place. 
Jonas, of Cambridge, freeman 1647, had by his first wife, Sarah and 
Jonas ; by the second, Elizabeth, whom he married in 1650, his children 
were : Elizabeth ; Thomas, born 1653 ; John, ■ born 1655 ; Timothy ; 
Samuel, born 1659 ; Abigail ; Mary ; John, born 1665 ; Nathaniel, 
1667. Nathaniel, of Plymouth, was one of Sir Edmund Andres's Coun- 
cil in 1687, died 1717, aged 73, leaving no children. Nathaniel Clark, 
of Newbury, died August 25, 1690. Nicholas, of Cambridge, 1634. 
Richard, one of the first pilgrims at Plymouth, died in 1621. A 



CLARK. 30*) 

Kichard Clark was an early settler at Rowley, Robert, of Boston, was 
assistant minister at King's Chapel in 1686. Thouifts, of Boston, admit- 
ted freeman, and member of the ancient and honorable Artillery Com- 
pany 1638; Captain of artillery company 1651; Major of the Suffolk, 
regiment; Representative 1651, eighteen years; Speaker of the House 
1662, '65, '69, '70, and '72 ; elected Assistant 1673 to 1677. He died 
March 13, 1683. He was one of the two who entered their dissent 
against the law of 1656, punishing with death all Quakers who should 
return to Massachusetts after banishment. Thomas, Jr., of Boston, 
probably son of the preceding, was Representative from 1673 to 1676. 
Thomas, blacksmith, of Boston, was admitted a townsman November 25, 
1639, member of the church 1640, freeman 1641. Cornelius and 
Jacob, sous of Thomas Clark, were born in 1639 and 1642. Thomas, 
of Dorchester, member of the church 1636. There was a Thomas 
Clark, of Ipswich, in 1648, and another in 1674, who was admitted free- 
man that year. There was a Thomas Clark, of Lynn, 1640, who re- 
moved to Reading. Thomas, the second minister of Chelmsford, son of 
Jonas Clark, was born at Cambridge, March 2, 1653; graduated at 
Harvard College 1670, succeeded Rev. John Fiske in 1677 ; died Dec. 
7, 1704, aged 52. His children were, Jonas, a Colonel and Magistrate, 
born Dec. 20, 1684, died April 8, 1770 ; Thomas, born Sept. 28, 1694; 
Elizabeth, who married Rev. John Hancock, of Lexington ; Lucy, who 
married Major William Tyng, of Dunstable ; and several who died in 
infancy. Mary, his first wife, died Dec. 2, 1700. He married Eliza- 
beth Whiting in 1702. Thomas, of Newport, one of the founders of 
the first Baptist Church in that place in 1644. Thomas, of Plymo'uth, 
died March 24, 1697, aged 98. There was a Thomas Clark, of Scituate, 
in 1676. Walter, of Rhode Island, was Speaker of the House of 
Deputies ; one of Sir Edmund Andros's Council 1687, and Governor in 
1676, 1686, 1696, and 1697. William, of Ipswich, one of the first 
settlers 1633, and probably admitted freeman in 1681. He is men- 
tioned by Prince, who omits his title of Captain, which is supplied by 
the Ipswich town records. There was a William Clark, of Watertown, 
in 1631; another of Dorchester, and member of the church in 1636; 



310 , THE GRANARY BURIAL GROUND. 

one of Salem, who died about 1647 ; and one who was admitted free- 
man in 1639. William, of Lynn, in 1646, perhaps the member of the 
ancient and honorable Artillery Company in 1647, died March 5, 1683. 
His children were, Hannah; John, who died 1684; Lydia, Mary, Sarah, 
Elizabeth, and Lewis. 

William, of Northampton, Representatiye in 1663. In the Old 
Burying Ground, Northampton, may be seen his grave-stone, with this 
inscription : 

LIEVTEN. WILLIAM CLARKE, 

AGED 81 YEARS, 
DYED IVLY 19, 1690. 

Also on the grave-stone of one of his descendants, the following : 
MR. JOSI A H CLARK, 

DIED APRIL 7, 1789. 
AGED 92 YEARS. 

He was the youngest of six sons and five daughters, and survived 
them all ; from these five sons have descended eleven hundred and fifty- 
eight lineal heirs : nine hundred and twenty-five were living at his death. 

" With long life will I satisfy him, and show him my salvation." 

Uriah, of AVatertown, son of Hugh Clark, was born at Watertown, 
April 5, 1644, admitted freeman 1685. He was father of Rev. Peter 
Clark, Harvard College 1712, a learned minister of Danvers, whose sons, 
Peter and William, graduated at Harvard College 1739, and 1759, the 
latter an Episcopal minister of Dedham. A descendant of the sixth 
generation from Rev. Peter Clark, the whole series being of that name, 
was a member of Dartmouth College. 

Lieut. William Clark, who died at Northampton in 1690, was one 
of the pillars of the church. His son John,, born in 1651, had six sons; 
John, Nathaniel, Ebenezer, Increase, Noah, Josiah, born from 1679 to 
1697. They all lived in Elm-street. The sons of John, Nathaniel, and 



CLAKK. 311 

Noah, settled in Southampton. Ebenezer died in 1781, aged 99 ; his 
sou William died in 1807, aged 87 ; next William, son of the last, died 
Dec. 31, 1842, aged 78, the father of Hon. William Clark, of North- 
ampton, now living, who was a Senator of Massachusetts in 1840. tiis 
mother was Jerusha Wright, daughter of Bildad, and sister of Enos 
Wright, who for near half a century was Deacon of the First Church in 
Northampton. Increase Clark had six sons, viz. : 1. Daniel, Elijah, 
Moses, Simeon, Noah, and Josiah. Daniel died December 26, 1804, 
aged 92 ; his son was Deacon Solomon Clark, and his grandson was the 
late Allen Clark. 2. Elijah, deacon, died in 1791, aged 60 ; he was the 
father of Deacons Luther and Enos Clark. 3. Moses had fourteen 
children, one of whom was Deacon Israel, who died October 22, 1851, 
aged 86. 



MEMOIR OF DEACON LUTHER CLARK. 

i saw an aged man cpon his biee, 

His haik was thin and white, and on his brow 

a record of the cares of many a year ; 

Cares that were ended and forgotten now. 

And there was sadness round, and faces bowed, 

And woman's tears FELii fast, and children wailed aloud. 

Then rose another hoary man and said, 

In faltering accents, to that weeping train, 

Why mourn ye that our aged friend is dead? 

****** 

I AM GLAD, that HE HAS LIVED THUS LONG, 

And glad that he has gone to his reward; 

Nor deem, that kindly nature did him wrong, 

Softly to disengage the vital cord. 

When his weak hand grew palsied, and his eye 

Dark with the mist of age, it was his time to die. — W. C. Bryant. 

Deacon Luther Clark, born Oct. 7, 1767, died at Northampton, 



312 THE GRANARY BURIAL GROUND, 

Oct. 17, 1855, aged 88 years, being of the fiftt generation from Lieut. 
William Clark. He was deacon of the First Church for more than half 
a century, and an excellent Christian. His wife, a daughter of Rev. 
Solomon Allen, born Dee. 1, 1774, is still living, at the age of eighty- 
one. They had nine children. 

1. George Allen, of Brooklyn, N. Y., born Oct. 7, 1797. 

2. Luther, of Northampton, born Nov. 27, 1799. 

3. Elijah, born May 18, 1802, died Aug. 31, 1846. 

4. Charles, of New York, born Aug. 5, 1804. 

5. Nancy Allen, born Jan. 5, 1807, died Aug. 16, 1853. 

6. Lucy Henderson, born Nov. 12, 1808. 

7. Rev. Solomon, of Canton, Mass., born March 2, 1811. 

8. Julia, born Feb. 27, 1813, died July 23, 1824. 

9. Moses, of New Orleans, born Sept. 12, 1816. 
Luther Clark married Lucy Allen, Nov. 8, 1776. 

Elijah Clark married, first, Elizabeth Thompson, Nov. 20, 1820; 
second, Frances P. Butler, Sept. 4, 1833. 

George A. Clark married Elizabeth Lyman, daughter of Levi Ly- 
man, Esq., of Northampton, July 11, 1826, who died on Staten Island 
in 1852, sister of Lieut. Robert Lyman, who died in the United States 
service many years since, also of Colonel William C. Lyman, aide to 
Governor Clark, of Georgia, and of Mrs. Clarisa Lyman Richards, wife 

of Rev. Richards, for many years a devoted missionary to the 

Sandwich Islands. 

Charles Clark married Temperance Clart, July 26, 1827. 

Luther Clark, Jr., married Louisa Heaton, July 13, 1829. 

Solomon Clark married Elizabeth N. Haven, May 5, 1841. 

Moses Clark married Amelia Wells, Oct. 11, 1852. 

Nancy Allen married William A. Wells, Aug. 26, 1833. 

Deacon Solomon Clark (a descendant of Lieut. William Clark, who 
died in 1690), died some years since, leaving children, viz. : 

Allen, who married Sophia Cook, of Hadley, Mass., and died in Aug., 
1849, leaving children, viz. : Jonathan ; Allen, married Electa Strong, of 
Northampton, Mass. ; Harriet, married Sylvester S. Wright, of North- 



CLARK. 313 

ampton, Mass., son of Levi and grandson of Deacon Enos Wright ; 
Daniel W., married Mary Reork, of New Jersey; Pamela, married Heman 
Smith, of Springfield, Mass. ; Sophia, married James W. Beebe, of the 
city of New York; Edwin C, married Emily Hines, of Berkshire County, 
Mass. ; and Charles S. unmarried. 

Experience, who married Chapin, of Springfield, Mass. 

William Clark, now residing in Brooklyn, N. Y. (of the fifth gene- 
ration from Rev. Peter Clark, who graduated at Harvard College in 
1712, who married Fanny H. Silver, of Montpelier, Vt.), is a son of 
Benjamin Clark, who married Susannah Bass, of Braintree, Mass. He 

was a son of Peter, who married . His father was Peter, who 

married . 

In the " Old Burial-ground " in Plymouth, Mass., we copied in 1851 
the following : 

HERE LYES YE BODY OF 

MR. THOMAS CLARK, 

AGED 98 YEARS, 

DEPARTED THIS LIFE MARCH YE 24TH, 1627. 

MATE OF THE MAYFLOWER. 



314 THE GRANARY BURIAL GROUND, 

HERE LYES YE BODY OF 

JOHN COLE3WORTHY, SENIOR, 

AGED 39 YEARS, 
DIED FEBRUARY YE * *, 1756. 



HERE LYETH BURIED THE BODY OF 

ELIZABETH ELIOTT, 

THE WIFE OF ASAPH ELIOTT, 

AGED ABOUT 26 YEARS, 

DEPARTED THIS LIFE YE 10 OF MARCH, 1680. 



HERE LIES BURIED THE BODY OF 

MR. JOHN HOOTON, 

WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE JUNE 24tH, 1760, 
AGED 71 YEARS. 



HERE LIES BURIED YE BODY OF 

MISS ELISABETH BURR, 

DAU'r OF MR. MICHAEL fc MRS. ELISABETH BURR, 
WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE 

MARCH 15th, 1760, IN YE 23d year of her age. 



INSCRIPTIONS. 315 

HERE LYES YE BODY OF 

MR. SAMUEL SMITH, 

WHO DIED dec'r YE 29th, 1743, IN YE 45th year of his age. 

JAMES, 

SON TO ye above SMITH, & MRS. SARAH, HIS WIFE, 

DIED JULY 15th, 1742, 

AGED 17 MONTHS. 

ROBERT, 

SON AS ABOVE, 
DIED OCT. 19, 1744, AGED 16 MONTHS. 



HERE LYES YE BODY OF 

CAPT, ROBERT RANKIN, 

WHO DIED JAN. 25tH, A. D. 1745 AGED 30 YEARS. 



HERE LIES TE BODY OF 

MARGARET ELIOT, 

DAu'r op MR. SIM**N & MRS. JANE ELIOT, 

AGED 17 YEARS, 

DIED MAY YE IOtH, 1752. 



316 THE GRANARY BURIAL GROUND. 

WILLIAM DICKSON, 

SON TO MR. WILLIAM k. MRS. MARTHA DICKSOiT, 
AGED 3 YEARS & 7 MO. CIED SEPT. YE 27tH, 1747. 



HERE LIES INTER ED THE REMAINS OF 

MR. JOHN BALL, 

WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE MAY YE 5tH, 1768, 
AGED 47 YEARS. 

'a good NAME IS BETTER THAN PRECIOUS OINTMENT. 

AN UPRIGHT THY PROMISE * * * MAY CLAIM, 

AND WITH ACCEPTANCE ON THY ALTAR FLAME, 

NOR death's DAMP SHADES * * * * THE HEAVENLY RAY, 

PALMS, CROWNS, & ANGELS WAIT THY RISING DAY. 



ARMS. 

HERE LIES THE BODY OF \ HERE LIES 

i 

MRS. DEBORAH SALISBURY, 

THE WIFE OF 
MR, BENj'n SALISBURY, 

WHO DIED aug'st 3d, 1769, 

AGED 60 YEARS. 



THE BODY OF 

MR. BENJ'N SALISBURY, 

WHO DIED MARCH 15tH, 

1770, 

AGED 70 YEARS. 



BRATTLE. 

Thomas Brattle, freeman, and member of the ancient and honor 
able artillery company in 1672, a respectable merchant of Boston, was 
born Sept. 5, 1657, graduated at Harvard College 1676, and was after- 
wards Treasurer of that institution. He was principal founder of 
the Church in Brattlfe-street, of which Dr. Coleman was the first min- 
ister. His death occurred May 18, 1713, in the fifty-sixth year of his 
age. He was the brother-in-law of Mr. Pemberton. Several of his 
communications on astronomical subjects, were in the philosophical 
transactions. He wrote an excellent letter, giving an account of the 
witchcraft delusion in 1692, which is preserved in the historical col- 
lections. 

William Brattle, minister of Cambridge, Mass., brother of the 
preceding, was born in Boston about the year 1662, graduated at 
Harvard College in 1680. He was tutor for several years, and a fellow 
of that institution. He exerted himself to form his pupils to virtue 
and the fear of God, punishing vice with the authority of a master" and 
cherishing every virtuous disposition with parental tenderness. When 
the small-pox prevailed in the college, he was not driven away in terror, 
but with benevolent courage remained at his post, and visited the sick, 
both that he might administer to them relief, and might inspire them 
with those hopes which were necessary to their salvation. As he had never 
experienced, the disease, he now took it in the natural way ; for the 
practice of inoculation had not been introduced into America. But the 
course of the disorder was mild, and he was soon restored to his usual 



318 THE GRANAr.Y LUllIAL GROUND. 

health. He was ordained pastor of the church in Cambridge, as suc- 
cessor of Mr. Gookin, Nov. 25, 1696, and after a useful ministry of 
twenty years, died Feb. 15, 1717. " Farmer," withal, erroneously 
says March for February. He was succeeded by Dr. Appleton. His 
funeral was attended February 20, a day memorable for the great snow 
which then commenced, and which detained for several days at Cam- 
bridge the magistrates and ministers who were assembled on the occa- 
sion. The snow was six feet deep in Boston. Mr. Brattle was a very 
religious, good man, an able divine, and an excellent scholar. Such was 
his reputation for science, that he was elected a fellow of the Royal 
Society. He was polite and affable, compassionate and charitable. 
Having a large estate, he distributed of his abundance with a liberal 
hand ; but his charities were secret and silent. His pacific spirit and 
his moderation were so conspicuous, as to secure to him the respect of 
all denominations. So remarkable was his patience under injuries, and 
such use did he make of the troubles of life, that he was heard to 
observe, that he knew not how he could have spared any of his trials. 
Uniting courage with his humility, he was neither bribed by the favor 
nor overawed by the displeasure. He was a man of great learning and 
abilities, and at once a philosopher and divine. But he placed neither 
learning nor religion in unprofitable speculations, but in such solid and 
substantial truth as improves the mind and is beneficial to the world. 
The promotion of religion, learning, virtue, and peace, was the great 
object in which he was constantly engaged. As he possessed penetra- 
tion and a sound judgment, his counsel was often sought and highly 
respected. Such was his regard to the interest of literature, that he 
bequeathed to Harvard College two hundred and fifty pounds, besides a 
much greater sum in other charitable and pious legacies. With regard 
to his manner of preaching, Dr. Coleman, comparing him and Mr. Pem- 
berton, who died about the same time, observes : " They performed the 
public service in the house of God with a great deal of solemnity, though 
in a manner somewhat different ; for Mr. Brattle was all calm and soft 
and melting, but Mr. Pemberton was all flame and zeal and earnest- 



BRATTLE. 319 

ness." The death of this good man, after a languishing disease, was 
peaceful and serene. 

He published a system of logic, entitled " Compendium logicje secun- 
dem principia D. Renati Cartesii plerumque efformatum et catechistice 
propositum." It was held in high estimation and long recited at 
Harvard College. An edition of it was published in 1758. 

William Brattle, a man of extraordinary talents and character, the 
son of the preceding, graduated at Harvard College in 1722. He was 
a Repi-esentative of Cambridge in the General Court, and was long a 
member of the Council. He studied theology and preached with accept- 
ance. His eminence as a lawyer drew around him an abundance of 
clients. As a physician his practice was extensive and celebrated. He 
was also a military man, and obtained the appointment of Major-general 
of the militia. 

While he secured the favor of the Grovernor of the State, he also 
ingratiated himself with the people. In his conduct there were many 
eccentricities. He was attached to the pleasures of the table. At the 
commencement of the American Revolution an unhappy sympathy in 
the plans of General Gage led him to retire into Boston, from which place 
he accompanied the troops to Halifax, where he died in October, 1776. 
His first wife was the daughter of Governor Saltonstall ; his second was 
the widow of James Allen, and daughter of Colonel Fitch. His son, 
Thomas Brattle, of Cambridge, died Feb. 7, 1801. 



320 THE GKANARY BURIAL GROUND. 

HERE LIES YE BODY O* 

JOHN WAREFIELD, 

AGED 52 YEARS, 
DEc'd JUNE YE 18, 1667. 

[On the other side is the following inscription :] 

*ERE LYETH YE BODY *F 

JOHN CHILD, 

AGED ABOUT 80 YEARS, DIED APRIL 3d, 1703. 



IN MEMORY OF 



MR. NATH'L HURD, 



OF BOSTON, 



AN EMINENT GOLDSMITH & ENGRAVER, 
WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE 17tH DEc'r, 1777, M. 48 YEARS. 



FRANK, 

SERVANT TO JOHN HANCOCK, ESQ. 

LIES INTERED HERE, 

WHO DIED 23d JAn'y, 1771, iETATlS 8. 



INSCRIPTIONS. 321 

IN MEMORY OF 

NANCY MAIN, 

DAUG'r of MR. JOHN & MRS. EUNICE MAIN, 

WHO DIED APRIL 20, 1782, 

AGED 2 YEARS. 



HERE LYES YE BODY OF 

MRS. MARY CURSELL, 

AGED 66 YEARS, 
DIED JUNE YE 25tH, 1747. 



HERE LYES YE BODY OF 

MRS. HANNAH GRAINGER, 

WIFE OF MR. SAMUEL GRAINGER, OF BOSTON, SCHOOLMASTER, 
AGED 31 YEARS, 

dec'd JUNE YE 11th, 1722. 



HERE LYES BURIED THE BODY OF 

MR. JAMES MAGGY, 

WHO DIED JULY 8tH, 1774, IN THE 28th YEAR OF HIS AGE. 

21 



322 THE GRANAKY BURIAL GROUND. 

HERE LIES YE BODY OF 

MRS. JANE MCMILLEN, 

THE WIFE OF MR. ROBERT MCMILLEN, 

AGED 36 YEARS, 

DIED APRIL YE 12tH, 1746. 



JAMES MCMILLEN, 

SON OF MR. ROBERT k MRS. JANE MCMILLEN, 
21 MONTHS, 

DIED SEPT. 5th, 1743. 



AGNISS, 

DAu'r TO WILLIAM & AGNISS HOOG, 
AGED 1 YEAR, 

dec'd march YE 24, 1735. 



HERE LYES YE BODY OF 

MRS. ELISABETH VICKERY, 

WIFE OF MR. BENJAMIN VICKERY 

WHO DIED AUGUST THE 20tH, 1764, 

AGED 42 YEARS. 



FRANKLIN. 



JOSIAH FRANKLIN. 



JosiAH Franklin, Boston, was the son of Thomas Franklin, of Ecton, 
in Northamptonshire, who was born in 1598. He came to New Eng- 
land about 1682, and died at the age of eightj-seven. His brother 
Benjamin, a silk dyer, also came to New England, and left posterity in 
Boston. The first wife of Josiah was Anna, by whom he had, 1. Josiah, 
born Aug. 23, 1685 ; 2. Anna, born 1687 ; 3. Joseph, born Jan. 5, 1688 ; 
■1. Joseph 2d, born June 30, 1689. The second wife was Abiah, daughter 
of Peter Folger, and his children were : 5. John, born Dec. 7, 1690 ; 
6. Peter, born Nov. 22, 1692 ; 7. Mary, born 1694; 8. James, born Feb. 
4, 1697 ; 9. Sarah, born 1699 ; 10. Ebenezer, born 1701, died 1703 ; 
11. Thomas, born Dec. 7, 1703 ; 12. Benjamin, the philosopher, born 
Jan. 6, 1706, died at Philadelphia, April 17, 1790, aged eighty-four; 13. 
Lydia, born 1708; 14. Jane, born 1712. 

William, Ipswich 1634, thence to Newbury and Boston, was admit- 
ted freeman 1638. The particulars of his death in 1644 are given by 
Winthrop, ii., 183-185. His son, William, was admitted a townsman in 
Boston, March 28, 1642. His children born in Boston were : Elizabeth, 
1638 ; John, July 14, 1642 ; Benjamin, October 12, 1643, who had 
several children ; Ebenezer, who died in 1644 ; and Eleazar, born Oct. 
4, 1645. 



324 



THE GRANARY BURIAL GROUND. 



„.ul,u „.,:,:■ ,:::,":.„,, :,;iil!' 





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William Franklin, the last royal 
Governor of New Jersey, tlie son of 
Dr. Franklin, was born about 1731. 
He was a captain in the French war, 
and served at Ticonderoga. After the 
peace of Paris he accompanied his 
father to England. Going to Scotland, 
he became acquainted with the Earl of 
Bute, who recommended him to Lord 
Halifax, and by the latter he was ap- 
pointed Governor of New Jersey in 1763. He continued in office, firm 
in loyalty till the beginning of the Revolution, when the whigs, in July, 
1776, sent him to Connecticut. On his release he sailed to England, 



FEANKLIN. 325 

and obtained a pension for his losses. He died in England November 
17, 1813, aged eighty-two. His first wife was a West Indian, by whom 
he had a son ; his second wife was a native of Ireland. His son, Wil- 
liam Temple Franklin, editor of the works of Dr. Franklin, died at Paris 
May 25, 1S2B.— Allen's Bio. Die. 



May Boston boys remember, that Benjamin Franklin began his career as a 
hawker of ballads in their own streets, and ended it by making treaties with the Kings 
of Europe. — Charles Sprague. 

MEMOIR OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN. 

BY HIMSELF. 

Some notes which one of my uncles (who had the same curiosity in 
collecting family anecdotes) once put into my hands, furnished me with 
several particulars relative to our ancestors. From these notes I learned 
that they lived in the same village, Ecton, in Northamptonshire, on a 
freehold of about thirty acres, for at least three hundred years, and how 
much longer could not be ascertained.* 

* Perhaps from the time when the name of Franklin, which before was the name 
of an order of people, was assumed by them for a surname, when others took surnames 
all over the kingdom. 

As a proof that Franklin was anciently the common name of an order or rank in 
England, see Judge Fortesque, De laudibus Legum Anglice, written about the year 1412, 
in which is the following passage, to show that good juri*s might easily be formed in 
any part of England. 

" Regio etiam ilia, ita respersa refertaque est possessorihus terrarum et agromm, 
quod in ea, villula tam parva reperiri non poterit, in qua non est miles, armiger, vel 
pater-familias, qualis ibidem Franklin vulgariter noncupatur, magnis ditatus posses- 
sionibns, nee non libere tenentes et alii valecti plurimi, suis patrimoniis suiBcientes ad 
faciendum juratum in forma prsenotata." 

" Moreover, the same country is so' filled and replenished with landed meime, that 
therem so small a Thorpe cannot be found wherein dweleth not a knight, an esquire, 



326 



THE GRANARY BURIAL GROUND. 




Franklin wheeling home his Printing Paper. 

This small estate would not have sufficed for their maintenance with- 
out the business of a smith, which had continued in the family down to 
my uncle's time, the eldest son being always brought up to that employ- 
ment — a custom which he and my father followed with regard to their 
eldest sons. When I searched the registers at Ecton, I found an account 
of their marriages and burials from the year 1555 only, as the register 
kept did not commence previous thereto. I, however, learned from it 
that I was the youngest son of the youngest son for five generations back. 
My grandfather Thomas, who was born in 1598, lived at Ecton till he 
was too old to continue his business, when he retired to Banbury, in 



or such a householder, as is there commonly called a Franklin, enriched with great 
possessions ; and also other freeholders and many yeomen able for their livelihoods to 
make a jury in form aforementioned." — Old Translation. 

Chaucer, too, calls his Country Gentleman a Franklin^ and, after describing his good 
housekeeping, thus characterizes him : 

" This worthy Franklin bore a purse of silk, 

Fixed to his girdle, white as morning milk. 

Knight of the Shire, first Justice at th' Assize, 

To help the poor, the doubtful to advise. 

In all employments, generous, just, he proved ; 

Renowned for courtesy, by all beloved." 



FRANKLIN, 327 

Oxfordshire, to the house of his son John, with whom my father served 
an apprenticeship. There my uncle died and lies buried. We saw his 
gravestone in 1758. His eldest son Thomas lived in the house at Ecton, 
and left it with the land to his only daughter, who, with her husband, 
one Fisher, of Wellingborough, sold it to Mr. Isted, now lord of the 
manor there. My grandfather had four sons, who grew up, viz : Thomas, 
John, Benjamin, and Josiah. Being at a distance from my papers, I 
will give you what account I can of them from memory : and if my 
papers are not lost in my absence, you will find among them many 
more particulars. 

Thomas, my eldest uncle, was bred a smith under his father ; but, 
being ingenious, and encouraged in learning (as all my brothers were) 
by an Esquire Palmer, then the principal inhabitant of that parish, he 




Franklin on guard. 

qualified himself for the bar, and became a considerable man in the 
county ; was chief mover of all public-spirited enterprises for the county 
or town of Northampton, as well as of his own village, of which many 
instances were related of him ; and he was much taken notice of and pa- 
tronized by Lord Halifax. He died in 1702, on the 6th of January, four 
years to a day before I was born. The recital, which some elderly persons 
made to us of his character, I remember, struck you as something extraor- 
dinary, from its similarity with what you know of me. " Had he died,'" 



328 



THE GRANARY BURIAL GROUND. 



said you, " four years later on the same day, one might have supposed a 
transm iff ration." 




Franklin sharing his roll with the Emigrant. 



John, my next uncle, was bred a dyer, I believe of wool. Benjamin 
was bred a silk dyer, serving an apprenticeship in London. He was an 
ingenious man. I remember, when I was a boy, he came to my father's 
in Boston, and resided in the house with us for several years. There 
was always a particular affection between my father and him, and I was 
his godson. He lived to a great age. He left behind him two quarto 



FKANKLIN. 329 

volumes of manuscript, of his own poetry, consisting of fugitive pieces 
addressed to his friends. He had invented a short-hand of his own, 
which he taught me, but, not having practised it, I have now forgotten 
it. He was very pious, and an assiduous .attendant at the sermons of 
the best preachers, which he reduced to writing according to his method, 
and thus had collected several volumes of them. He was also a good 
deal of a politician ; too much so, perhaps, for his station. There fell 
lately into my hands, in London, a collection he made of all the princi- 
pal political pamphlets relating to public affairs, from the year 1641 to 
1717 ; many of the volumes are wanting, as appears by their numbering, 
but there still remains eight volumes in folio, and twenty in quarto and 
in octavo. A dealer in old books had met with them, and knowing me 
by name, having bought books of him, he brought them to me. It 
would appear that my uncle must have left them here when he went to 
America, which was about fifty years ago. I found several of his notes 
in the margins. His grandson, Samuel Franklin, is still living in 
Boston. 




Mrs. Franklin sewing books. 

Our humble family early embraced the Reformed religion. Our 
forefathers continued Protestants through the reign of Mary, when they 
were sometimes in danger of persecution on account of their zeal against 



330 THE GRANARY BURIAL GROUND. 

popery. They had an English Bible, and to conceal it, and place it in 
safety, it was fastened open with tapes under and within the cover of 
a joint-stool. When my great-grandfather wished to read it to his fam- 
ily, he placed the joint-stool on his kcees, and then turned over the 
leaves under the tapes. One of the children stood at the door to give 
notice if he saw the appirator coming, who was an officer of the spiritual 
court. In that case the stool was turned down again upon its feet, when 
the Bible remained concealed under it as before. This anecdote I had 
from Uncle Benjamin. The family continued all of the Church of Eng- 
land till about the end of Charles II.'s reign, when some of the ministers 
that had been ousted for their non-conformity, holding conventicles in 
Northamptonshire, my Uncle Benjamin and Father Josiah adhered to 
them, and so continued all their lives ; the rest of the family remained 
with the Episcopal Church. 

My father married young, and carried his wife with three children 
to New England, about 1685. The conventicles being at that time for- 
bidden by law, and frequently disturbed in their meetings, some consid- 
erable men of his acquaintance determined to go to that country, and 
he was prevailed with to accompany them thither, where they expected 
to enjoy the exercise of their religion with freedom. By the same wife 
my father had four children more born there, and by a second wife ten 
others, in all seventeen ; of whom I remember to have seen thirteen sitting 
together at his table, who all grew up to years of maturity, and were mar- 
ried ; I was the youngest son, and the youngest of all the children except 
two daughters. I was born in Boston, in New England.* My mother, 
the second wife of my father, was Abiah Folger, daughter of Peter Fol- 
ger, one of the first settlers of New England, of whom honorable mention 
is made by Cotton Mather, in his ecclesiastical history of that country, 

* Dr. Franldin was bom on Sunday, January 6tl^ 1706. old style, corresponding 
to January 17th, 1706, new style, the date given by most of bis biographers. The re- 
cords of the Old South Church, Boston, show that he was baptized on the day of his 
birth. The site of the house in which he was born, in Milk street, opposite the church 
alluded to, is now occupied by a fine granite stOTe, called " The Birth-place of 
Franklin." 



FRANKLIN, 



331 



entitled " Magnalia Christi Americana," a?! " a godly and learned Eng- 
lishman." 




The Committee on the Declaration of Independence. 



He had an excellent constitution, was of a middle stature, well set, 
and very strong : he could draw prettily, and was skilled a little in 
music; his voice was sonorous and agreeable, so that when he played on 
his violin and sung withal, as he was accustomed to do after the business 
of the day was over, it was extremely agreeable to hear. He had some 
knowledge of mechanics, and, on occasion, was very handy with other 



332 THE GEANARY BURIAL GROUND. 

tradesmen's tools ; but his great excellence was his sound understanding 
and solid judgment in prudential matters, both in private and public 
affairs. It is true he was never employed in the latter, the numerous 
family he had to educate and the straitness of his circumstances keep- 
ing mm close to his trade ; but I remember well his being frequently 
visited by leading men, who consulted him for his opinion in public 
affairs, and those of the church he belonged to, and who showed a great 
respect for his judgment and advice : he was also much consulted by 
private persons about their affairs when any difficulty occurred, and fre- 
quently chosen an arbitrator between contending parties. At his table 
he liked to have, as often as he could, some sensible friend or neighbor 
to converse with, and always took care to start some ingenious or useful 
topic for discourse, which might tend to improve the minds of his 
children. 

My mother had likewise an excellent constitution : she suckled all 
her ten children. I never knew either my father or mother to have any 
sickness but that of which they died, he at eighty-nine, and she at 
eighty-five years of age. They lie buried together at Boston, where I, 
some years since, placed a marble over their grave with this inscription r 

JOSIAH FRANKLIN, 

AND 

ABIAH HIS WIFE, 
LIE HERE INTERRED. 

they lived tovinfily together in wedlock 

fifty-five years. 

and without an estate, or any gainful employment, 

by constant labor and honest industry, 

(with god's blessing,) 
maintained a large family comfortably, 



FRANKLIN. 333 



AND BROUGHT UP THIRTEEN CHILDREN AND SEVEN 

GRANDCHILDREN REPUTABLY. 

FROM THIS INSTANCE, READER, 

BE ENCOURAGED TO DILIGENCE IN THY CALLING, 

AND DISTRUST NOT PROVIDENCE. 

HE WAS A PIOUS AND PRUDENT MAN ; 

SHE A DISCREET AND VIRTUOUS WOMAN. 

THEIR YOUNGEST SON, 

IN FILIAL REGARD TO THEIR MEMORY, 

PLACES THIS STONE. 

J. F. BORN 1655, DIED 1744, >ETAT. 89. 

A. F. BORN 1667, DIED 1752, >ETAT. 85.* 



* In 1827, the citizens of Boston erected a monument to the memory of Franklin, 
in the Granary Burial Ground, over the graves of his parents. The corner stone was 
laid on the 15th of June, in that year, by the President of the Mechanic Association, 
Charles Wells, with appropriate ceremonies. An address being delivered by Gen. 
H. A. S. Dearborn, embracing a sketch of tlie life and character of Franldin. The 
monument is an obeKsk of Quincy granite, from the Bunker Hill Monument Quarry, 
twenty-one feet high, which rests on a square base measuring seven feet on each side, 
and two feet in height. It is composed of five massive blocks, placed one above 
another. On one side, is the name of Franklin, in large bronze letters, and a little 
below is a tablet of bronze, thirty-two inches long, and sixteen wide, sunk into the 
stone. On this tablet is engraved Dr. Franklin's original inscription, as above, and 
beneath it the following.: 

"THE MARBLE TABLET 

BEARING THE ABOVE INSCRIPTION 

HAVING BEEN DILAPIDATED BY THE RAVAGES OF TIME, 

A NUMBER OF CITIZENS, 



334 THE GRANARY BURIAL GROUND. 

By my rambling digressions, I perceive myself to bo grown old. I 
used to write more methodically. But one does not dress for private 
company as for a public ball. Perhaps it is only negligence. 

ENTERTAINING THE MOST PROFOUND VENERATION 

FOR THE MEMORY OF THE ILLUSTRIOUS 

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, 

AND DESIROUS OF REMINDING SUCCEEDING GENERATIONS 

THAT HE WAS BORN IN BOSTON, A. D. MDCCVI., 

ERECTED THIS OBELISK 

OVER THE GRAVES OF HIS PARENTS. 

MDCCCXXVII." 

A sih'er plate, bearing an inscription, one of the Franklin medals, and several other 
small medals were deposited i/nder the corner stone. The inscription on the plate was 
partly as follows, " This Monument was erected over the remains of the Parents of 
Benjamin Franklin, hy the citizens of Boston, from respect to the private character 
and public services of this illustrious patriot and philosopher, and for the many tokens 
of his affectionate attachment to his native town." The Monument was erected under 
the superintendence of Mr. Willard, Architect. 



The following gravestones stand about four feet west of the Franklin 
monument, in the Granary Burial Ground. 

HERE LYES BURIED 

THE BODY OF 

MR. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, 

AGED 76 YEARS, 

DEC'D MARCH YE 27, 

1727. 



FRANKLIN. 335 

HERE LYES BURIED 
YE BODY OF 

MRS. HANNAH FRANKLIN, 

WIFE TO MR. SAMUEL FRANKLIN, 

DIED JAN'RY 24, 

1748-9. 



336 THE GKANARY BURIAL GROUND. 

HERE LYES YE BODY OF 

MRS. SUSANNAH STONE, 

WIFE TO MR. JOHN STONE, 
DEc'd JANUARY YE 20, 1726, IN YE 76 YEAR OF HER AGE. 



IN MEMORY OF 

ANN NEWELL, 

DAu'r of MR. THOMAS & MRS. ELISABETH NEWELL, 

WHO DIED OCT. 19, 1766, 

AGED 9 YEARS & 6 MONTHS. 



HERE LIES YE BODY OF 

MISS ELISABETH NEWELL, 

DAU'r of MR. THOMAS & MRS. ELISABETH NEWELL, 

DIED 12th APRIL, 1774, 

AGED 22 YEARS. 



HERE LIES THE BODY OF 

SIMON ELIOT, 

WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE JAN'rY YE 7tH, 1761, 
AGED 49 YEARS. 



INSCRIPTIONS. 337 

JOHN SAVAGE, 

SON TO MR. ISAAC & MRS. ELISABETH SAVAGE, 

AGED 15 YEARSj 

DIED APRIL YE 7th, 1744. 



WILLIAM BURT, 

AGED ABOUT 40 YEARS, DIED NOUEMBER YE IOtH, 1693. 



MR. JAMES WOOD, 



OF LONDON, 



AGED 34 YEARS, 
DIED JANUARY YE 5, 1681-2. 



JAMES PRINCE, 

AGED 6 YEARS & 2 MONTH, DIED JAn'y 24tH, 1747. 

WILLIAM PRINCE, 

AGED 1 MONTH, 

DIED feb'ry ye 23d, 1747-8. 

THE CHILDREN OF MR. WILLIAM fc MRS. JEAN PRINCE. 

22 



338 THE GKANARY BURIAL GROUND. 

WILLIAM, 

SON TO GEORGE & JEAN SIREY, 
AGED 1 YEAR fc 10 MONTHS, DIED OCT. YE 17tH, 1709. 



VIVE, MEMOR, LOETHI. 
HERE LYETH INTERED YE BODY OF 

CAPT. WILLIAM CORDIS, 

MARINER, AGED 47 YEARS, 
DEPARTED THIS LIFE YE 25 DAY OF AUGUST, 1685. 



HERE LYES BURIED THE BODY OF 

MRS. DEBORAH SCOLLAY, 

RELICT OF MR. JAMES SCOLLAY, 



HERE LYES YE BODY OF 

MRS. REBECCA WILLISTON, 

WIFE OF MR. EBENEZER WILLISTON, 

AGED 31 YEARS, 

DEc'd FEB. 10, 1738. 



HOLMES. 

G-EORGE Holmes was a freeman in Roxbury in 1639. He died De- 
cember 18, 1645. John Holmes was a minister in Duxbury; He bad 
been a student under President Chauncy in 1658, and succeeded Rev. 
Ralpb Patridge, but was the minister there only a few years. John 
Holmes was of Plymouth in 1638. Nathaniel, of Roxbury, son of 
George Holmes, was born in 1639, and was representative in 1689. 
Obadiah Holmes, of Salem, was admitted to the church March 24, 1639, 
from which he was excommunicated ; went to Rehoboth, where he became 
a Baptist : removed to Newport, Rhode Island, and was the minister 
there in 1652. He died in 1682, aged seventy-six. He had eight chil- 
dren, and his descendants in 1790 were estimated at five thousand ! His 
son Obadiah was a judge and preacher in New Jersey. John, another 
son, was a magistrate in Philadelphia. One of Obadiah's sons was liv- 
ing in Newport in 1770, at the age of ninety-five. Richard Holmes 
born in 1610, resided in Rowley, Mass., in 1643. Robert Holmes was 
a freeman in Cambridge in 1636. His wife's name was Jane. He had 
three sons, John, Joseph, and Ephraim. A Robert Holmes died at 
Newbury, September 18, 1673. 

Major "William Holmes, of Plymouth Colony, in 1638, died in Bos- 
ton in 1649. He left no family. 



340 THE GRANARY BURIAL GROUND. 

Granite slab, and on the foundation of the same is the following : 
SAMUEL TORREY, 
OB. SEP. 6, 1748, 
>E. 73. 

SAMUEL TORREY, 

OB. JULY 15, 1766, 
/E. 68. 

SAMUEL TORREY, 

OB. NOV. 18, 1768. 
/E. 12. 

SAMUEL TORREY, 

OB. MAY 29, 1815, 
/E. 67. 

Again beginning: 

HERE LYES BURIED THE BODY OF 

CAPT. JOHN McKOWN, 

WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE SEPTEM'R YE 1ST, 1771, 
AGED 64 YEARS. 



Against the back of this stone leans the footstone' of 
MARY GYLES, 
1791. 



TORREY. 

Lieutenant James Torrey was of Scituate in 1640. Philip was 
admitted freemau in Roxbury, 1664, and died May, 1686. The Rev. 
Samuel Torrey succeeded Rev. Thomas Thacher as minister of Wey- 
mouth in 1656, and died April 21, 1707, aged seventy-five, having been 
a faithful minister for more than half a century. He married Mrs. 
Mary Symmes, 30th July, 1695. He published the election sermon in 
1674, 1683, and 1695. 

William of Weymouth, was a freeman in 1642, member of the Ar. 
Co. 1641, representative from 1642 to 1649, excepting 1646-7, and per- 
haps the representative again from 1679 to 1683. Johnson, in his His- 
tory of New England, p. 110, says, " He was a good penman, and skilled 
in the Latin tongue," and was "usually Clark of the Deputies." Six- 
teen of the name had received the honors of the New England colleges 
in 1828. 



342 THE GRANARY BURIAL GROUND. 

IN MEMORY OF 

REV. ENOCH HALE, 

WHO WAS FOR FIFTY-SIX YEARS THE FAITHFUL 

AND BELOVED MINISTER OF THE CHURCH 

IN THIS TOWN, 

AND 

O C T A V I A , 

HIS WIFE. 

REV. ENOCH HALE, 

BORN OCT. 28, 1753, AT COVENTRY, CONN. 

ORDAINED SEPT. 27, 1779, AS THE FIRST PASTOR 

OF THE CHURCH IN THIS TOWN. 

DIED JAN. 14, 1837, 

AGED 84 YEARS. 

ERECTED IN TESTIMONY OF THE RESPECT 

AND GRATITUDE OF SURVIVING 

PARISHIONERS. 

" HE TAUGHT US HOW TO LIVE, AND OH ! TOO HIGH A PRICE FOR 

KNOWLEDGE, TAUGHT US HOW TO DIE." 

OCTAVIA, 

WIFE OF ENOCH HALE, 

AND DAUGHTER OF REV. BEN'N THROOP, 

BORN JULY 7, 1754, AT BOZRAH, CONN. 

MARRIED SEPT. 30, 1781. 

DIED AUG. 18, 1839, AGED 85 YEARS. 

[Note.] Hon. Nathan Hale, of Boston, the venerable editor of the " Daily Adver- 
tiser," is a son of the above. 



HALE. 

" Deep was the wound, death, and vastly wide, 
When he resign'd his useful breath and died. 
Ye sacred tribes, with pious soitows mourn, 
And drop a tear at your great pastor's urn ! 
Conceal'd a moment from our longing eyes, 
Beneath this stone his mortal body lies ; 
Happy the spirit lives, and will, we trust, 
In bliss associate with his pious dust." 

Rev. Richa rd Hale was the son of Deacon Robert Hale. He was 
born at Cliarlestown, June 3, 1636. He graduated at Harvard College 
in 1657 ,• was ordained Sept. 20, 1667 ; was chaplain in the expedition 
to Canada from June 4 to Nov. 20, 1690. He was the first minister of 
Beverly, Mass., and died May 15, 1700, aged 63. His son James, min- 
ister of Ashford, Conn., died in October, 1742, aged 56. In the witch- 
craft delusion of 1692, beginning in the family of Mr. Parris, he was 
deluded, and approved of the judicial measures. His modest inquiry 
into the nature of witchcraft was published in 1702. His account of 
the witchcraft was made use of by Cotton Mather, in Magnalia, Vol. 
VI. p. 79. 

The Rev. John, above mentioned, married : 1. Rebecca Byles (or 
Byley), Dec. 15, 1664 ; 2. Sarah Noyes, March 31, 1684 ; 3. widow 
Elizabeth Clark, August 8, 1698. He had sons : 1. Robert, born Nov. 
3, 1668, graduated at Harvard College in 1686. He was for many years 
a magistrate in Beverly, and died June 24, 1719, aged 50. 2. James, 
born Oct. 14, 1685, mentioned above. 3. Samuel, born Aug. 13, 1687. 



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344 THE GRANARY BURIAL GROUND. 

He married Appliia Moody, May 29, 1714, settled in Newbury, and had 
sons : Samuel Hale, A. A. S., of Portsmouth, who graduated at Har- 
vard College in 1740, and died July 10, 1807, aged 89 ; Eichard, of 
Coventry, Conn., the father of Nathan, who was executed as a spy in the 
Revolution ; and John, of Gloucester. 4. John, born Aug. 24, 1692. 
A daughter of the Rev. John Hale married Rev. John Chipman, of the 
Second Church, Beverly. Samuel Hale, of Portsmouth, had sons: 
Hon. Saml. Hale, of Barrington, N. H., who died April 28, 1828 ; John, 
who graduated at Harvard College in 1779, and died July 13, 1791, 
aged 33 ; Hon. William Hale, of Dover ; and Thomas W., of Barring- 
ton. John, of Newbury, son of Thomas, of Newbury, was born about 
1636, and was admitted freeman 1678; and by three wives had sons : 
John, born 1661 ; Samuel, born 1664 ; Thomas, born 1668 ; Joseph, 
born 1674 ; Bcnjamiu, and Moses. Moses was born July 10, 1678, 
graduated at Harvard College 1699 ; was the minister of Byfield parish, 
Mass., and died January, 1743, aged 65. 

Deacon Robert Hale was one of the founders of the church in 
Charlestown in 1632, was admitted freeman 1634, member of the ancient 
and honorable artillery company 1644, an ensign of the military com- 
pany, and died July 19, 1659. Two of his sons were : John, minister 
of Beverly ; and Samuel, born in 1644. Thomas Hale, of Massachu- 
setts, was admitted freeman in 1634. Thomas, a glover, born in 1604, 
came with his wife Tamosin, and settled in Newbury in 1635 ; admitted 
freeman 1638 ; lived in Haverhill in 1646, afterwards in Salem, but 
died in Newbury, December, 1682. He had three sons who settled in 
Newbury. 1. Thomas, born 1633, married Miss Mary Hutchinson 
May 26, 1657, died Oct. 22, 1688, leaving sons : 1. Thomas, born Feb. 
11, 1659, was a magistrate, and died Jan. 8, 1746; having had sons, 
Ezekiel, born 1689 ; Ebenezer, born 1695 ; Nathan, born 1691 ; David, 
born 1097 ; and Samuel, born June 6, 1674. 2. John, born 1636, who 
is already noticed. 3. Samuel, who married Sarah Isley in 1673. 

Capt. Nathan Hale, of the Revolutionary army, was a descendant 
of John Hale, first minister of Beverly, and son of Richard Hale, of 
Coventry, Conn. He graduated at Yale College in, 1773, with high 



HALE. 345 

reputation. In the war he commanded a company in Col. Knowlton's 
regiment, and was with the army in the retreat from Long Island in 
1776. Washington having applied to Knowlton for a discreet and en- 
terprising officer to penetrate the enemy's camp and procure intelligence, 
Hale passed in disguise to the British camp, but on his return was ap- 
prehended and carried before Lord William Howe, by whom he was 
ordered for execution the next morning. He was denied a Bible and 
the aid of a clergyman. The letters, full of fortitude and resignation, 
which he had written to his mother and sister, were destroyed. He was 
hung, regretting that he had but one life to lose for his country. 
Though executed in a brutal manner as a spy, he was firm and composed. 
In education and talents he was superior perhaps to Andre, who died 
also as a spy. In patriotic devotion to his country, hazarding in her 
sacred cause not only life, but honor and home, no one was superior to 
him. Dwight honored him by some lines on his death. 



HERE LYES YE BODY OF 

MRS. MARY GRAY, 

WIFE OF MR. NICHOLAS GRAY, WHO DIED 

JAN'RY 27TH,1754, 

AGED 29 YEARS AND 5 MONTHS. 



GRAY. 

Hon. William Gtkay, Lieutenant-governor of Massachusetts, and an 
eminent merchant, was born in Lynn, of humble parentage, about 1751. 
He was an early apprentice to Samuel Gardner, and then to Richard 
Derby, merchants of Salem. Entering upon commercial pursuits at a 
favorable period, he conducted his business with a sound judgment and 
unwearied industry. Though he acquired a very large fortune^ his sim- 
ple habits remained unaltered. In the period of the embargo in 1808, 
he abandoned the party to which he had been attached and espoused the 
side of the Government ; and it is said that the political excitement 
awakened against him induced him to remove to Boston. 

In 1810 he was elected Lieutenant-governor, Mr. Gerry being 
chosen Governor. Mrs. Gray died in 1823. His eldest son, William 
R. Gray, has since died. 



INSCEIPTIONS. 347 

HERE LYES BURIED THE BODY OF 

MR. THOMAS WYAT, 

AGED 24 YEARS & 6 MONTHS, DEc'd APRIL YE IOtH, 1737. 



HERE LYES BURIED THE BODY OF 

MRS. JOHN MAYBURY, 

AGED 65 YEARS, 
DIED OCT. THE 20tH, 1745 



MARY PATISON, 

1768. 



HERE LYES YE BODY OF 

MRS. REBECCA SURCOMB, 

WIFE TO MR. RICHARD SURCOMB, 

WHO DIED FEB. 28tH, A. D. 1738, AGED 22 YEARS. 

ALSO, THEIR SON 

RICHARD, 

DIED SEPT. 22, 1739, AGED ABOUT 18 MONTHS. 



348 THE GRANARY BURIAL GROUND. 

MR. SAMUEL McCLUKE, 

1759. 



JAMES NICHOLS, 

SON OF MR. ANDREW & MRS, MARY NICHOLS, 

AGED 14 MONTHS, 

DIED AUG. 23, 1748. 



HERE LYES BURIED YE BODY OF 

MR. ANDREW OSWALD, 

MARINER, 

WHO WAS BORN IN SCOTLAND, & DYED HERE 

YE 12 OF NOv'e, 1726, ^TATIS 34. 



HERE LYES BURIED YE BODY OF 

MR. JOSEPH SCOTT, 

WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE JANUARY THE 10, 1771, 
IN THE 55 YEAR OF HIS AGE. 

ALSO, 
7 CHILDREN OF MR. JOSEPH & MRS. ANNA SCOTT. 



INSCRIPTIONS. 349 

MRS. SARAH McCLURE. 



HERE LYES YE BODY OF 

J ANNA EMMONS, 

WIFE OF THOMAS EMMON 
DIED JULY 10, 1739, 
AGED 63 YEARS. 



HERE LIES YE BODY OF 

MRS. MARY FOWLES, 

IFE OF MR. ISAAC FOWLES 

DIED feb'y 18th, 1760, 

AGED 30 YEARS. 



IN MEMORY OF 

MRS. ESTHER LOVERING, 

CONSORT OF MR. JOSEPH LOVERING, JUn'r 

WHO DIED JUNE 7tH, 1798, 

AGED 26 YEARS. 

COMPLEAT SHE SHONE THROUGH EVERY SCENE OF LIFE, 
THE TENDER PARENT & INDULGENT WIFE." 




PEKSEVERENTIA. 



In the Granary Cemetery is a monument with the following inscription : 

CALEB LORING, 

DIED 1806. 



LORING. 



Descendants of Deacon Thomas Loring, and his wife, Jane New- 
ton, who came from Axminster, Devonshire, England, Dec. 22, 1634, 
with their two sous, and settled at Hingham, New England, in 1635. 
From tlir- " Ancestral Records of the Loring Family of Massachusetts 



LORING. 351 

Bay. In four parts. Exhibiting the Genealogy of the four sons of 
Deacon Thomas Loring, extending through seven generations. By 
James S. Loring." 

1. Thomas, born in 1629 ; married Hannah, daughter of Nicholas 
Jacob, of Hingham, Dec. 13, 1657. Their children were, Hannah, 
born Aug. 9, 1664, who married Rev. Jeremiah Gushing, of Scituate, 
in 1685. Thomas, born July 29, 1667 ; married Deborah, daughter of 
Hon. John Gushing, of Scituate, April 19, 1699. Deborah, born March 
15, 1668 ; married Hon. John Gushing, of Scituate, June 20, 1688. 
David, born Sept. 16, 1671 ; married Elizabeth, daughter of Hon. John 
Otis, of Barnstable, Jan., 1699. Galeb, born June 9, 1674; married 
Lydia, daughter of Edward Gray, of Plymouth, Aug. 7, 1696. 

2. John, born Dee. 22, 1630 ; married Mary, daughter of Nathaniel 
Baker, of Hingham, Dec. 16, 1657 ; and married second time widow 
Rachel Buckland, Sept. 22, 1679. Their children were, John, born in 
1658, who died in 1678. Joseph, born March 10, 1660 ; married Han- 
nah, daughter of John Leavitt, Oct. 25, 1683. Thomas, born March 1, 
1662; married Leah, daughter of Benjamin Buckland, Jan. 10, 1687. 
Sarah, born 1664, died early. Isaac, born Jan. 22, 1666 ; married 
Sarah Young, Aug. 5, 1691, of Boston. Mary, born Feb., 1668; 
married Thomas Jones, of Hull. Nathaniel, born March 5, 1670 ; 
married Susanna Butler, of Boston, Dec. 13, 1699. Daniel, born Feb. 

8, 1672 ; married Priscilla Mann, of Boston, Feb. 2, 1698. Rachel, 
born Feb. 29, 1674 ; married Galeb Hobart, Sept. 23, 1700. Jacob, 
born April 21, 1676 ; married Sarah Lewis, Feb. 9, 1709. Israel, born 
1678, died same year. John, born June 20, 1680 ; married Jane, 
daughter of Samuel Baker, Sept. 2, 1703. Israel, born April 15, 1682; 
married Mary, daughter of Nathan Hayman, of Gharlestowu, May 25, 
1709. Sarah, born June 6, 1684. Caleb, born Jan. 2, 1689; married 
Elizabeth Baker, June 22, 1714. 

3. JosiAH, born in 1637 ; and married Elizabeth Prince, daughter 
of Elder John Prince, of Hull. Their children were, Jane, born Aug. 

9, 1663 ; married Samuel Gifford, of Sandwich. Josiah, born Nov. 22, 
1665. Samuel, lorn 1668, died 1674. Jonathan, born April 24, 1674; 



352 THE CllANARY BURIAL GROUND. 

married Elizabeth, daughter of Richard Austin, of Charlestown. Job, 
born Feb. 22, 1669 ; married Rebecca, name not known, and settled at 
Rochester, Mass. Elizabeth, born 1672, died 1743. 

4. Benjamin, baptized Jan. 9, 1642 ; married Mary, daughter of 
Matthew Hawke, of Hingham, Dec. 8, 1670. Their children were, 
Benjamin, born 1671, who married Anna, daughter of Isaac Vickorj, 
Oct. 8, 1702. John, born about 1673 ; married Elizabeth, daughter of 
John Collier, Feb. 10, 1709. Mary, born 1675 ; married James Gould, 
Feb. 8, 1709. Samuel, born 1680 ; married Jane, daughter of John 
Collier, April 19, 1716. Matthew, born Oct. 19, 1684 ; married Expe- 
rience, daughter of John Collier, Dee. 23, 1714. 

The decease of the common ancestors is thus recorded in Hobart's 
Diary : " 1661, April 1. Thomas Loring, sometime a deacon to the 
church at Hingham, died at Hull." His widow, Jane, had the improve- 
ment of the estate until her decease, Aug. 25, 1672. By her will, 
dated July 10, 1672, she appointed her son Thomas executor. Among 
other legacies, she bei|ueathed to her son Thomas a volume called " The 
Jewell of Contentment, by Jeremiah Burroughs. Printed at London, 
in 1645." To Hannah, wife of Thomas, a yellow pair of bodices, 
stomacher, her best neck clothes, &c. ; to her son, John, a volume called 
" The Covenant of Grace, by Obadiah Sedgwick." To Mary, wife of 
John, a suit of head linen, her best mantle, a kersey waistcoat with gold 
lace, and other articles ; to her son Benjamin, a volume called " The 
True, or Sincere Convert, by Thomas Sheppard, of London, discovering 
the small number of true Beleevers, and the Great Difficulty of Saving 
Conversion." Also her interest in a " Catch," or vessel at sea. To 
Mary, wife of Benjamin, her riding suit, pillion cloth, hood and gloves, 
a suit of head clothes, serge gown, and other articles. To her son 
Josiah she gave twenty pounds of wool, to clothe his children. Rev. 
Zechariah Whitman was a witness to the will ; proved, Boston, Oct. 6, 
1672. The agreement of the four sons of Deacon Thomas Loring, in 
the division of their father's estate, Oct. 30, 1672, is in the probate office 
of Suffolk. 

Heraldry. — Arms of Sir Petrus Loring, granted in the reign of 



LORING. 353 

Henry III. : Shield — quarterly, argent and gules, a bend engrailed, 
sable, for Loring. Crest — five upright feathers, standing in a bowl, 
argent. 

From " Memorials of the Gushing Family, of Hingham and Scituate, 
New England, descendants of Daniel Gushing, Esq., and Hon. John 
Gushing, sons of Deacon Matthew Gushing, of Hingham, Norfolk County, 
Old England, in 1638. By J. S. Loring." 

Peter Gushing, of Hingham, Norfolk County, England, who, accord- 
ing to Deane, held large estates in Lombard-street, London, had two 
sons, Theophilus and Matthew, who came to New England. The 
former, born in 1579, sailed in the ship Griffin, in 1633, in company 
with Governor Haynes ; resided on his farm, and finally settled in 
Hingham. He was blind for twenty-five years, had no family, and died 
March 24, 1678. The younger son, Matthew, born in 1588, married 
Nazareth, daughter of Henry Pitcher, Aug. 5, 1613, and had four 
sons, and one daughter, who married Matthias Briggs, May, 1648 ; all 
natives of Hingham, Old England. He embarked with his whole family 
and his wife's sister, widow Frances Riecroft, in the ship Diligent, of 
Ipswich, three hundred and fifty tons, John Martin, master ; arrived at 
Boston, Aug. 10, 1638, with one hundred and thirty-three passengers, 
among whom was Robert Peck, teacher, and settled at Hingham, in that 
year, where he had a gi-ant of land, and became a deacon of Rev. Peter 
Hobart's church. He died Sept. 30, 1660, leaving a will. His widow 
died Jan. 6, 1691, aged ninety-five years. But two of his sons left de- 
scendants, Daniel and John, the former of whom was a justice of the 
peace, and third town clerk of Hingham. 

1. Daniel, married Lydia, daughter of Edward Gilman, Jan. 19, 
1645. Their children were, Peter, born 1646, who married Hannah 
Hawke, 1685. Daniel, born 1648, who married Elizabeth Thaxter, in 
1680. Deborah, born in 1651, who married Benj. Woodbridge, 1679. 
Jeremiah, born in 1654, who married Hannah Loring, in 1685. The- 
ophilus, born in 1657, who married Mary Thaxter, in 1688. Matthew, 
born in 1660, who married Jael Jacob, in 1684. 

Daniel Gushing, Esq., died Dec. 3, 1700. 
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354 THE GRANARY BURIAL GROUND. 

2. Hon. John, married Sarah, daughter of Matthew Hawke. Their 
children were, John, born in 1662, who married Deborah Loring, in 
1688. Thomas, born in 1663, who married Deborah Thaxter, in 1687. 
Matthew, born in 1664, who married Deborah Jacob, in 1689. Jeremiah, 
born in 1666, who married Judith Parmenter, in 1693. James, born 
in 1668, who married Mary Barrell, in 1712. Joshua, born in 1670. 
Sarah, born in 1671, who married Dea. David Jacob, in 1689. Caleb, 
born Jan. 6, 1672, who married Elizabeth Cotton, in 1698. Mary, 
born 1676, died 1698. Deborah, born 1674; married Thomas Loring, 
1699. Joseph, born in 1677 ; married Mercy Pickles, in 1710. Ben- 
jamin, born in 1678 ; became a merchant of Barbadoes. 

The arms of the Cushing Family are quarterly, ga. an eagle, argent. 
Grules, three right hands somewhat torn. A canton chequery or. and 
az. 1563. 

Descendants of Gteorge Spear. He was an early inhabitant of 
Dorchester, and was admitted freeman in 1644. He soon removed to 
Braintree, now Quincy, where he died. His wife's name was Mary, who 
died Dec. 7, 1674. He was probably the ancestor of all of the name in 
New England. Their children were, G-eorge, who married Mary Deer- 
iugs, 1669. Sarah, born 1647 ; married George Witly, 1672. Samuel, 
born 1659 ; married Elizabeth Daniels, 1694. Ebenezer, born 1654, 
llichard. Hannah, married Simeon Bryant, 1694. Nathaniel, born 
1665 ; married Hannah Holman, 1689. 

1. Samuel, son of George, lived near Horse Neck, where he died, 
1713, before the birth of his youngest child. He has a gravestone in 
Quincy. His estate, appraised 1714, at £111,810. He had Samuel, 
1696 ; graduated at Harvard University, 1715 ; married Rebecca 
Hinckley. He had the " Great Hill," which, with what was bestowed 
in his education, was a double portion ; also forty acres, the part of his 
sister, Hannah Lemont, which he bought of her. Daniel, born 1698 ; 
probably died young. Elizabeth, born 1700 ; died 1724. Mehitabel', 
born 1702 ; married Benjamin Neal, 1727. Dorothy, married Benja- 
min Veazie, 1726. Hannah, born 1706; married Robert Lemont, 



LORING. 355 

1729. William, born 1708; married Hannah Penniman, 1730. He 
had the dwelling-house lately occupied by Joseph Green, and about 
sixteen acres of land on the site ; also two acres in Penniman's Meadow, 
and ten acres in Mills's Meadow. John, born 1710; married Mary 
Arnold, 1736. He had the dwelling-house lately occupied by Mr. 
Nightingale, barn, and two acres of woodland. Mary, born 1712 ; mar- 
ried John Saunders, 1735. She had twenty-six acres of land at Horse 
Neck Benoni, born 1714 ; married Elizabeth Newcomb, 1760. He 
had twenty-seven acres of 'his father's land. John Spear's daughter 
Prudence, born 1737, married Daniel Baxter, in 1755. 

2. George, son of George 1st, married Mary Bearings. She died 
1678. They had Mary, 1676. Ebenezer, 1678, who died same year. 

3. Ebenezer, son of George 1st, married Rachel Bearings, 1679, 
and lived in Braintree. They were members of the church in the south 
parish, in 1711, and many of their descendants have lived there. He 
died, March, 1719. They had Ebenezer, 1680, who married Mary 
Copeland, 1718, and second wife, Mary Tower, 1727. Mary, born 
1682 ; married Ephraim Jones, 1708. Samuel, born 1684, who mar- 
ried Rebecca. Rachel, born 1686 ; married Cornelius Thayer, -of 
Braintree, 1717. Joseph, born Feb. 25, 1688 ; married Ann. She 
died, April, 1719. He married second wife, Mary Collier, of Hull, 
Dec. 12, 1720. He was ancestor of the Spears of Hull. Nathaniel, 
born 1693. Abigail, born 1695 ; married Nathaniel Littlefield, 1718. 
Benjamin, born 1698; married Sarah Niles, 1722. Deering, born 1700; 
married Jemina Thayer, 1726. Son Nathaniel, administrator. 

4. Richard, sou of George 1st, married, and had seven children, all 
of whom were baptized, April 11, 1698, in Brainti-ee, viz. : Rebecca, 
Benjamin, Richard, John, James, Mary, and Deborah. 

5. Nathaniel, sou of George 1st, married Hannah Holman, 1689, 
and lived in Braintree, where he died, leaving a will, Sept. 12, 1728. 
His wife died 1725. Their children were, Hannah, born 1690, who 
married Ebenezer Nightingale, 1711. Nathaniel, born 1692; married 
Thankful. John, born 1694 ; married Ann Perry, of Milton, 1718. 
Mary, born 1697 ; married Lemuel Gulliver, 1717. David, born 1699; 



356 THE GKANARY BURIAL GROUND, 

married Deborah. Joseph, born 1701 ; married Abigail Cleg. Nathan, 
born 1703 ; married Mehitabel Brackett, 1734, Margaret, born 1710. 
Thomas, born 1707 ; died young. Lydia, born 1713 ; married Richard 
Bracket, 1733. 

The Gray Family, of Boston. Edward Gray, an opulent merchant 
of Boston, arrived in this country, from Lancashire, England, in 1686. 
He served an apprenticeship with Mr. Barton, as a ropemaker, at Bar- 
ton's Point, then a cow pasture. He hired Barton's Point and ropewalk 
of Mr. Barton, for ten dollars per annum. He was married to Susanna 
Harrison, by Pen Townsend, Esq., 1699; had Harrison, 1711; who 
married Elizabeth Lewis, 1734. Treasurer of Massachusetts Province, 
and left Boston with the British troops in 1776, as did his gi-andson 
Harrison, who died at London, 1830, aged ninety. Harrison senior had 
also, John, born 1755. Lewis. Elizabeth, 1746 ; married Samuel A. 
Otis, father of Hon. H. G. Otis. Edward senior had Edward, 1702 ; 
married Hannah Bridge, 1727 ; had Edward, 1728. Sarah, married 
Jeremy Green. Anne, born 1705 ; married Increase Blake, Persis, 
bo'rn 1706. Bethiah, born 1710. Susannah, born 1712; married Col. 
Joseph Jackson. John, born 1713 ; married Mary Otis, Barnstable. 
His second wife was Hannah Ellis, married by Dr. Colman, 1714 ; a 
niece of Dr. Colman's wife, who sent for her from England, with a view 
to this marriage, owing to her warm affection called the lump of love ; 
and had Ellis, 1716 ; married Sarah Tyler, by Rev. William Welsted, 
1739. Ellis was colleague pastor of Second Church, Boston; had 
Hannah, 1744 ; married Thomas Cary, late of Chelsea, one of whose 
daughters was wife of Rev. Dr. Tuckerman. He had also, Ellis, 1745. 
William, born 1747. Mary, daughter of Edward, senior, married Na- 
thaniel Loring, 1739, a grandson of Elder John Loring, of Hull. Also, 
William, 1724; married Elizabeth Hall, daughter of Captain Stephen 
Hall. Benjamin, born 1726 ; married Mary Blanchard. Thomas, a 
bachelor. Judge Hall, of Boston, married Sarah, daughter of Ellis 
Gray, Jr. Judge Wilson, of Washington, and Dr. Bartlett, Boston, 
married Hannah, daughter of Ellis Gray, Jr. Edward, senior, died 



LORINQ. 357 

1757, aged eighty-four. Dr. Chauncey said of him, in a funeral sermon, 
" He was unexceptionable, unenvied, except for his goodness, universally 
well spoken of, both while living and now he is dead." By his will, 
dated Feb. 12, 1753 (witnessed by James Otis, the patriot), Mr. Gray 
gave to his son John the ropewalks, seven hundred and forty-four feet 
in length, by twenty or more feet wide, a brick warehouse adjoining, 
with yarn-house, knotting-house, dwelling-house, and land, standing the 
whole length of the present Pearl-street, and on Cow-lane, now High- 
street and Atkinson- street, appraised at one thousand pounds. The 
whole estate was appraised at about £5,500. By the inventory, he had 
ten colored slaves, appraised at about £246. 

William Gray, son of Edward, senior, had Martha Hall, 1760 ; mar- 
ried Dr. Samuel Danforth. Stephen H., born 1761. William, born 
1762. Edward, born 1764; married Susanna Turell, who had John. 
Rev. Frederick Turell, who married Elizabeth P. Chapman, and had 
also two daughters. John, born 1768. Elizabeth Saunders, born 1769; 
married Jacob Eustis. Rev. Dr. Thomas, of Jamaica Plain, born 
1772 ; married Deborah, daughter of Rev. Dr. Samuel Stillman, 1793 ; 
had George Harrison, 1795 ; married Ann, daughter of Dr. Terence 
Wakefield. Hannah Stillman, born 1796. Ann Greenough, born 1800 ; 
married Rev. George Whitney. Thomas, born 1806, who was a physi- 
cian and a poet. 



CODMAN. 

The earliest information we have of this family is 1637. Robert 
Godman at this time had a family of four persons. In 1641 he had a 
tract of land granted him. The Codmans in New Hampshire are descend- 
ed from William Codman, who came from Ireland before 1743, and set- 
tled at Amherst. The additional syllable was added by his sons, one 
of whom was Dr. Henry Codman, who died in 1812, aged sixty-eight. 
Richard Codman, of York, in 1653, was son-in-law of Richard Bonighton. 
Stephen, Charlestown, about 1680, died in 1706. His son John died in 
Gharlestown, 1755. John Codman, Esq., a merchant in Boston, who died 
in 1792, was father af the Hon. John Codman, who died May 17, 1803 
in his forty-ninth year, and grandfather of the Rev. John Codman, D. D., 
of Dorchester. Lieutenant William Codman was a deputy for Ports- 
mouth, R. I., in 1672. 

The Hon. John Codman above mentioned was a member of the Mas- 
sachusetts Senate. He filled the various public stations in which he 
was placed with integrity and honor. As a merchant he sustained a 
character of the first respectability. Endeared to his friends by a 
natural disposition, which rendered him warm in his attachments, he 
also possessed by the gift of divine grace, a principle of benevolence 
which drew upon him the blessings of the poor. In his last moments, 
more anxious for the safety of others than his own, he resigned himself 
to death with the fortitude, calmness, and triumph becoming the religion 
which he professed. 



FELT. 

" Our dying friends come o'er us like a cloud, 
To damp our brainless ardors : and abate 
That glare of life, which often blinds the wise. 
Our dying friends are pioneers, to smooth 
Our rugged path to death ; to break those bars 
Of terror, and abhorrence, nature throws 
'Cross our obstructed way : and, thus to make 
Welcome, as safe, our port from every storm." — YotJNG. 

G-EORGE Felt, born about 1601, lived twenty-one years on a planta- 
tion at Great Cove, in Casco Bay, from whence he was driven by the 
Indians. He died at Maiden, 1693. George Pelt, perhaps his son, 
was killed by the Indians at or near Mountjoy's Island, in Maine, in 
September, 1676. He had been more active than any other man in 
that region against the Indians, and his tragical death was much 
lamented. Rev. Joseph B. Felt, of Boston, formerly minister of Ham- 
ilton, Mass., who graduated at Dartmouth College in 1813, is descended 
from this family. Mr. Felt is well known to the antiquarian world for 
his " Annals of Salem," and the " Ecclesiastical History of Massachu- 
setts." 



HERE LYETH THE BODY OF 
E REUEREND FAITHFVLL MINISTER OF THE GOSPEL 
IN BOSTON, 

MR. JON BAYLY, 

AGED 54 YEARS, 

WHO DECEASED THE 12 OF DECEMBER, 1697. 

W. X. W. 1742. 



BAILY. 

Rev. John Baily was born Feb. 24, 1644, in Lancasliire, England. 
He was one of the ejected ministers in 1662 ; went to Limerick, in 
Ireland, and then found it necessary to remove to New England about 
1683. He was settled at Watertown, Oct. 6, 1686 ; removed to Boston 
1692, and Became minister of the First Church, July, 1693, and remained 
until his death, Dec. 12, 1697, aged fifty-three years. The members of 
the church were desirous he should settle as colleague pastor with Mr. 
Allen, but he declined. (His brother Thomas, who came with him from 
Ireland, was also minister of the church in Watertown.) 

From his earliest years his mind was impressed by the truths of re- 
ligion. While he was yet a youth, his mother persuaded him to lead 
the devotions of the family. When his father, who was a very dissolute 
man, heard of it, his heart was touched with a sense of his sin, in the 



BAILY. 361 

neglect of this duty, and he became an eminent Christian. He com- 
menced preaching at the early age of twenty- two. He spent about 
fourteen years of his life at Limerick, and was much blessed in his ex- 
ertions to turn men from darkuess to light. While he was a young 
man, he often travelled far by night to enjoy the ordinances of the gospel 
privately administered, and for this offence he was sometimes thrown 
into Lancashire jail. When he was before the Judges, he said to them, 
" If I had been drinking, and gaming, and carousing at a tavern with 
my company, my lords, I presume that you would not have procured my 
being thus treated as an offender. Must praying to God and preaching 
of Christ, be a greater crime ? The recorded answer is, ' we will have 
you to know it is a greater crime.' " He was discharged from prison 
only on condition that he should depart from the country in a limited 
time. He was a man eminent for piety, of great sensibility of con- 
science, and very exemplary in his life. It was his constant desire to 
be patient and resigned under the calamities which fell to his lot, and to 
fix his mind upon things above. But with all his faithfulness he saw 
many disconsolate hours. He was often distressed with doubts respect- 
ing himself; but his apprehensions only attached him the more to his 
Redeemer. His last words were, speaking of Christ, " Oh, what shall I 
say ? He is altogether lovely. His glorious angels are come for me ! '' 
He than closed his eyes, and his spirit passed into eternity. 

Of his posterity now living, are great grandchildren, and some of the 
sixth generation. These are in the female line, and bear the name of 
Willis or Belknap. 



362 THE GRANARY BURIAL GROUND. 

[Hard sandstone slab, on brick foundation, with slate lozenge, bearing:] 
THIS TOMB OF THE 

DUMMER AND POWELL FAMILYS 

WAS REPAIRED BY 

WILLIAM POWELL, 
OCT. 1786. 

LAnd then beneath, on slab itself:] 

JEREMIAH, 

THE SON OF JEREMIAH DUMMER, ESQR., 

&, ANNA, HIS WIFE, 

WAS BORN JANUARY YE 28, 16*5 &. DIED AUGUST YE 2, 1677. 

RICHARD, 

BORN SEPTEMBER YE 1, 1680, 
DIED JANUARY YE 12, 1689. 

MARY, 

A PIOUS VIRGIN, LYES NEXT HERE, 

TO PARENTS, BRETHEREN, SISTER, FRIENDS MOST D32AB, 
RELIGIOUS VIRTUE RIPE IN HER SO SOON, 
WAS REAPED FOR HEAv'n ****** 
NATA EST MARCH YE 11, 167* OBIJT OCTOBER YE 5, 16** 
[Nothing more legible.] 



GOVERNOR DUMMER. 

LiEUTENANT-GrovERNOR WiLLiAM DuMMER was born in the province 
of Massachusetts Bay, but went over to England, and was at Plymouth, 
holding an office there as one of the Commissioners, when he was ap- 
pointed, through the interest of Sir William Ashurst, to be Lieutenant- 
Governor in 1716. 

At the departure of Shute, Jan. 1, 1723, he was left at the head of 
the Province, and he continued Commander-in-Chief till the arrival of 
Burnet in 1728. He was also Commander-in-Chief in the interval be- 
tween his death and the arrival of Belcher. 

His administration is spoken of with great respect, and he is repre- 
. sented as governed by a pure regard to the public good. The war with 
the Indians was conducted with great skill, the Norridgwocks being cut 
off in 1724. From the year 1730 Mr. Dummer lived chiefly in retire- 
ment for the remainder of his life, selecting for his acquaintance and 
friends men of sense, virtue, and religion, and receiving' the blessings and 
applause of his country. He died in Boston, October 10, 1761, aged 
82 years. He preserved an unspotted character through life. Though 
be enjoyed fame, he did not place his happiness in the distinctions of 
this world. 

He was sincerely and firmly attached to the religion of Jesus, and in 
the midst of human grandeur he was preparing for death. In health and 
sickness he often declared, that his hope of the divine acceptance was 
built upon the merits and mediation of Jesus Christ, whom he adored as 
the true Goi and the only Saviour of men. IIo attended with reverence 



364 THE GRANARY BURIAL GROUND. 

upon the institutions of the Gospel ; he was constant in his family devo- 
tions ; he applied himself to the perusal of pious books, and at stated 
times he retired to his closet for secret prayer. 

During his life his alms were a memorial of his benevolence, and at 
death he left a great part of his estate to charitable uses. 



BLAKE. 

" Leaves have their time to fall, 
And flowers to wither at the north wind's breath, 

And stars to set — but all. 
Thou hast all seasons for thine own, death ! " — Mrs. Hemans. 

GrEORGE Blake, of Grloucester, 1649. Ten of the name had grad- 
uated at Harvard College in 1824. Henry, of Boston, died July 26, 
1662, perhaps the Henry Blake made freeman in 1645. James, of 
Dorchester, freeman 1652, representative in 1677, a deacon and ruling 
elder of the church, died June 28, 1700, aged 77. 

Jasper, m Hampton, died Feb. 11, 1773. John, of Dorchester, 
freeman 1644, member of the ancient and honorable artillery company 
in 1642. William, of Dorchester, freeman 1638, member of the ancient 
and honorable artillery company in 1646 ; one of the first settlers of 
Springfield, it is presumed. William, of Milton, freeman 1651, admit- 
ted a member of the church in Dorchester 1652, representative in 1689. 
His son Nathaniel was born in 1659. 



GOVEENOE HAYNES. 

John Haynes arrived at Boston, A. D. 1633. The next year he was 
chosen assistant, and in 1635, advanced to the chair of government. He 
removed from Massachusetts to Connecticut, and was for many years 
their most distinguished character. 



GOVERNOR HAYNES. 365 

Had he contim\ed in Massachusetts he would have been a rival to 
Governor Winthrop. His property, which combined with any consider- 
able qualifications, will always give a man influence, was equal to a thou- 
sand a-year in his own country ; but when Mr. Hooker came over to 
New England he joined the company. They resided at Newtown with 
a number of families from the county of Essex. 

They were most of them farmers, and wanted more land to cultivate. 
Dr. Trumbull says, " that the growing popularity of Mr. Haynes, and 
the fame of Mr. Hooker, who as to strength of genius, and his lively 
manner of preaching, rivalled Cotton, were supposed to have had no small 
influence with the court, in giving liberty to this Company to remove to 
Connecticut. 

There it was judged they would not so much, eclipse the fame, nor 
stand in the way of the promotion and honor of themselves and friends. 
Mr. Haynes was chosen Governor of Connecticut ; and his great integ- 
rity and wise management of all affairs, so raised and fixed his character 
in the esteem of the people, that they always, when the Constitution 
would permit, placed him in the chief seat of government, and continued 
him in it until his death. The fathers of Connecticut, according to the 
historian above named were, Mr. Haynes, Mr. Ludlow, Mr. Hooker, Mr. 
Wareham, Mr. Hopkins, Mr. Welles, Mr. Willis, Mr. Whiting, Mr. 
Wolcott, Mr. Phelps, and Mr. Webster. These were the first class of 
settlers ; and all, except the ministers, were chosen Magistrates or Go- 
vernors of the colony. Dr. Trumbull says the name of Haynes has be- 
come extinct in this country. 

There are several families of Haynes in Massachusetts, but whether 
they came from the same parts of Old England, cannot be ascertained. 
Governor Haynes died in the year 1654. 



GREENOUGH. 

Captain William Gtreenough, of Boston, died Aug. 6, 1693. Eight 
of the name had graduated at the New England Colleges in 1828. 

Deacon Thomas Greenough was born May 1710; May 24, 1750, he 
was married to Sarah, daughter of Mr. David Stoddard ; their children 
were David, S., born 31st July, 1752, married wid. Ann Doane, 11th 
May, 1784, (she having then a sou, John Doane, who married Persis 
Crafts. He died 9th April, 1795, aged 22 years, without issue. His 

widow married Homes, and died in 1849). The maiden name of 

widow Doane was Ann Hough. She died 9th July, 1802. David Stod- 
dard and Ann Gri'eenough had an o-'.ily child, David S., born 27th March, 
1787, grad. at Harvard College 1805. He was Lieut.-Col. of the Inde- 
pendent Cadets, and married Maria F. Doane, dau. of Elisha Doane of 
Cohasset, 14th June, 1813. She was born 2d January, 1793. Their 
children were, David Stoddard, born 10th July, 1814, grad. at Harvard 
College 1833, and commanded the same company his father did. He 
married Anna A. Parkman, 10th October, 1843 ; they had three chil- 
dren, David S., born 16th July, 1844; John, born 25th March, 1846; 
George Russell, born 28th June, 1849. John, second son of David S. 
and Maria F. Greenough, born 19th October, 1815, died 8th March, 
1842. Anna, born 13th October, 1817, married Henry K. Burgwyn, 
29th November, 1838, had eight children; Maria, Henry King, Anna 
Greenough, William H. Sumner, John Collinson, George Pollock, Alves- 

ton, Pierpont. Maria, third child of David S., born 11th January, 

1820, died 22d August, 1820; James, born 8th October, 1821, grad. at 



GREENOUGH. 367 

Harvard College 1842, now living; Greorge, born ITth July, 1824, died 
22d August, 1824; Maria, born 29th September, 1828, died 13th Aug. 
1830 ; Jane Doane, born 26th December, 1830, died 29th March, 1847. 

Col. David S. Greenough died 6th August, 1830. His widow mar- 
ried Gen. William Hyslop Sumner, 13th December, 1836 (his 2d mar- 
riage). She died 14th November, 1843. William (second son of Dea- 
con Thomas and Sarah Greenough) was born 29th June, 1756, grad. at 
Yale College 1774. He was a minister at Newton ; married 1st, Abigail, 
dau. of Rev. Stephen Badger, of Natick, 1st June, 1785 ; their children 
were, Sarah C, born at Newton, 24th August, 1787, married Josiah 

Fuller, jr., 27th April, 1 , died 20th December, 1815 ; Abigail, born 

24th April, 1790, married Robert H. Thayer, 11th June, 1816 ; Wil- 
liam, born 14th September, 1792, married Sarah Gardner 23d August, 
1817 ; children, William Whitwell, born 25th June, 1818, grad. at Har- 
vard College 1837. He married Catherine Scollay, dau. of Charles P. 
Curtis, 15th June, 1841; children, William, born 29th June, 1843; 
Charles Pelham, born 29th July, 1844; Anna Scollay, born 14th May, 
1847, died 21st August, 1847 ; Malcolm Scollay, born 31st August, 
1848; Catherine Margaret, born 12th January, 1852; Ann (dau. of 
William), born 23d September, 1794, died 1st March, 1816. 

Rev. William Greenough married 2d, Lydia Haskins of Boston, 22d 
May, 1798; children, Hannah, born 6th April, 1799; Martha Stevens, 
born 22d August, 1801, married Joseph H. Thayer 7th December, 1819; 
Thomas, born 11th June, 1803, married Mary J. Caruthers, 11th Sep- 
tember, 1826; had seven children, Fanny, born 17th December, 1805, 
died at Amherst 15th December, 1837 ; Elisabeth, born 13th Septem- 
ber, 1807, married Isaac R. Barbour 7th February, 1838. David Stod- 
dard Greenough, Esq., died 24th August, 1826, aged 74. Rev. William 
died in 1831, aged 75. Yeamans and Newman (gemiui children of Dea- 
con Thomas and Sarah Greenough), born 4th May, 1758, died young ; 
and Chauncy, born 25th July, 1760, died 7th October, 1778. Deacon 
Thomas died 16th August, 1785, and his wife in Mai-ch, 1778. 



368 THE GRANARY BURIAL GROUND. 

HERE LIES BURIED THE BODY OF 

MR. THOMAS WILLISTON, 

dec'd feb'y 18th, 1773, 
aged 63 years. 

ALSO, 
THE BODY OF 

MRS. SARAH WILLISTON, 

WIFE OF MR. THOMAS WILLISTON, 
DIED DEc'r 25th, 1771, AGED 60 YEARS. 



HERE LIES BURIED THE BODY OF 

MRS. MARY PHILIPPS, 

WIFE TO MR. CALEB PHILIPPS, 

dec'd MARCH THE 20th, 1741, 

IN THE 36tH YEAR OF HER AGE. 



HERE LIES BURIED THE BODY OF 

MR. MATHEW SMITH, 

WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE NOVEMBER 6tH, 1769, 
AGED 43 YEARS. 



INSCRIPTIONS. 369 

MARGARET PALIEKE, 1752. 



HERE LIES BURIED THE BODY OP 

MR. WILLIAM IRELAND, 

WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE MAY THE 5tH, 1755, 
AGED 64 YEARS. 



HERE LIES BURIED 

MRS. ANNE HEWES, 

WIFE OF MR. ROBERT HEWES, 

WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE JULY THE 19tH, 1761, 

IN THE 36 YEAR OF HER AGE. 



HERE LIES THE BODY OF 

MR. GEORGE HEWES, 

WHO DIED **AY 6th, 1770, * * * * 68. 



HERE LYES THE BODY OP 

MR. NATHANIEL SHANNON, 

AGED 68 YEARS, 
DIED AUGUST 27, 1723. 

24 



370 THE GRANARY BURIAL GROUND- 

HERE LYES BURIED * * * BODY OF 

MRS. MARY BROWNE, 

WIFE TO MR. WILLIAM BROWNE, 

DAUGHTER TO MR. SAMUEL JACKLEN, 

AGED 31 YEARS & 4 MONTHS, 

• **###**** 



HERE LIES BURIED THE BODY OF 

MRS. REBECCA PATRIDGE, 

THE WIFE OF CAPT. SAMUEL PATRIDGE, 

DIED MAY 24, 1763, 

AGED 42 YEARS. 

ALSO, 6 CHILDREN. 



CAPT. SAMUEL PATRIDGE, 

DIED MARCH 9, 1770, 
AGED 73. 



TAPPAN. 

There is some uncertainty about the country to which this family 
originally belonged ; and it is increased by the fact that the name is 
spelled in nearly twenty different ways. Most of the name spell it in 
one of the following styles : Tappan, Topping, Topper or Tappen. 

The Topping family are thought to be natives of France. In an 
early history of France, mention is made of an oflScer of some distinction, 
who bore that name. In Delaware County, N. Y., is a family named 
Topping, immigrants from Paris, respectable in property and intelligence. 

Christoffel Topper was an inhabitant of Amsterdam, and resided in 
the Sandt Straadt. In a history of Philip II., wherein a recital is 
given of the war between Spain and the Prince of Orange, it is stated 
that the Prince had an officer in his army designated as the meritorious 
G-eneral Christoffel Tappen. At the close of the war in 1579, he re- 
turned to Amsterdam. It is not known when those of this family emi- 
grated to New York. 

By some it is said that Tappan Bay, in the Hudson Biver, and the 
village of Tappan, were named after an Indian Chief bearing that name. 

It is certain that most of those who spell their name Tappan, at the 
present day, trace their lineage to some of the early New England Pil- 
grims, and are the descendants of English parents. They do not boast of 
ancestors who were distinguished among the heroes, chieftains, or nobles 
of the earth ; content and grateful that their progenitors were " soldiers 
of the cross," each of them may say with the poet Cowper : 

" My boast is not that I deduce my birth 
From loins enthroii'd, and rulei's of the earth; 
But higher far my proud pretensions rise — 
The son of parents passed into the skies." 



372 THE GRANARY BURIAL GROUND. 

In the Parish Register of Yarmouth, Norfolk County, England, is 
the following record : 

" Married, 1560, Nov. 28th, John Tappynge to Agnes Jewell." 

And the following are abstracts from wills in the Prerogative Office, 
London : 

" Philip Tappan, of Churchill, in Oxfordshire, Husbandman." 

The will is dated May 1st, 1631. Wife, Bridget. Sons : Michael 
and Robert. Daughters : Anne, wife of Edmund Bulline, and Elizabeth, 
wife of Humphrey Marshall. 

" John Tappan, of Churchill, Yeoman." Will dated 1651. Sons : 
Benjamin, Clement, John and Richard, Daughters : Rebecca, Elizabeth, 
Anne, and Jane. 

" Richard Toppen, the elder, of Brithelmstone, in Sussex, Husband- 
man." Will dated 1654. Wife, Joan. Sons : Richard, Thomas, John, 
and William. Daughter : Mary. 

" Martha Toppin, of Denver, widow. Will dated Dec. 26, 1638." 

" Thomas Toppin, the elder, of Denver, Reedlayer. Will dated Dec. 
1, 1638. 

" John Toppyng of Rendham, in the county of Suffolk. Will dated 
Sept. 21, 1508. Desires to be buried in the churchyard of Colton. 
Gives to his wife Margaret all his lands in Kelshall, &c. &c." 

" Joan Toppinge of Woodbridge, in the county of Suffolk, widow. 
Will dated 1593. Mentions her late husband, Ralph Toppinge." 

In the English records the name is spelled in fifteen different ways : 
as, Topping, Topinge, Toppin, Toppinge, Topper, Toppan, Tapline, Tur- 
pine, Turpyn, Typping, Turpin, Tuppin, Tippinge, Tupam, Tawper. Add 
to these the different orthographies in this country, Tappan, Tappen, Tap- 
ping, and we have the name in eighteen or nineteen different ways. 

THE NEW ENGLAND TAPPANS. 

They are descended from Abraham Toppan. 

His great, great, great grandson, Lewis W. Tappan, of Boston, when 
in England in 1855, ascertained that he resided in Yarmouth, and pro- 
cured, among the records in London, the following : 



TAPPAN. 373 

" May 10, 1637. The examination of Abraham Toppan of Yar- 
mouth, aged 31 years, and Susanna his wife, aged 30 years, with two 
children, Peter and Elizabeth, and one niayd servant, Anne Goodwin, 
aged 18 years, are desirous to passe to New England to inhabit." 

Susanna Toppan's maiden name was Goodale. 

It seems that emigrants were obliged to go to London to enter their 
names, and obtain permission to leave the country. 

In October, 1637, as appears by the following extract from the town 
records of " Ould Newberry," Essex County, Mass., Abraham Toppan 
was admitted to citizenship : 

" Abraham Toppan, being licensed by John Endicott, Esq., to live 
in this jurisdiction, was received into the towne of Newberry as an in- 
habitant thereof, and hath heere promised, under his hand, to be subject 
to any lawful order that shall be made by the towne." 

Abraham Toppan. 

The year following he was chosen one of the Selectmen. He was 
by trade a cooper, and was also engaged in merchandise. 

Abraham and Susanna Toppan had the following children : Peter, b. 

in England, 1634, and b. in England, and Abraham, jr. b. 

1644, emigrated to Woodbridge, New Jersey, and m. Ruth Pike. He 
died 1704, without issue. Jacob, b. 1645. John, b. 1651. Susanna, 
b. 1649. Elizabeth, b. 1665. Isaac. 

Abraham d. Nov. 5, 1672, aged 64; Susanna d. March 20, 1689. 

Dr. Peter Toppan, son of Abraham, m. Jane, daughter of Christopher 
Batt, April 3, 1661. Children: Peter, Dec, 1662; Elizabeth, Oct. 
16, 1665 ; Peter, Dec. 22, 1667 ; Samuel, Nov. 5, 1670 ; Christopher, 
Dec. 15, 1671 ; Jane, Jan. 4, 1674. 

Jacob, son of Abraham, m. Hannah Sewall, Aug. 24, 1670. He d. 
Dec. 13, 1717. Children : Jacob, May 20, 1671 ; Samuel, Sept. 30, 
1672, and d. Aug. 25, 1691; Jane, Sept. 28, 1674; John, Jan. 29, 
1677 ; Hannah, March 4, 1679 ; Elizabeth, Dec. 20, 1680 ; Abraham, 
June 29, 1684 ; Ann, May 16, 1686. 

John, son of Abraham, m. Martha . He was wounded by the 



374 THE GKANARY BURIAL GROUND. 

Indians at Bloody Brook in 1676, and d. in Salisbury Dec. 26, 1723, 
leaving a son, James, b. March 15, 1702. 

Jacob, Jr., son of Jacob, m. Sarah Kent, 1696. Children : Sarah, 
Sept. 23, 1697 ; Hannah, Nov. 23, 1699 ; Samuel, Jan. 6, 1702. 

Peter, Jr., m. Sarah Greenleaf, April 28, 1696. Children : Peter 
and Timothy, Feb. 2, 1698 ; Jane, Jan. 24, 1700 ; Elizabeth, April 25, 
1702. 

Samuel, son of Dr. Peter Toppan, was a farmer, and m. Abigail 
Wigglesworth in 1702. Her father was minister of Maiden, and her 
brother Edward, Professor of Divinity in Harvard College. Children : 
Samuel, Joseph, Wigglesworth, Abigail, Martha, Mary, Ebenezer, 
Lydia, Benjamin, and Joseph. 

Samuel settled in Newbury, Children : Samuel, Amos (graduate of 
Harvard University), Sarah, Mary, Abigail, and Ebenezer. 

Abigail m. Samuel Noyes, of Newburyport. Children : John, Ebe- 
nezer, Abigail, Mary, and Judith. 

Martha m. John Smith, of Newbui-yport. Children : John and 
Abigail. 

Lydia m. Jesse Smith, of Newburyport. Children : Moses, Mary, 
Michael, Jane, John, Richard, Abigail, Samuel, Joseph, and Martha. 

Joseph's children :. Joseph, and . 

Benjamin, b. 1720, graduated at Harvard College, m. Elizabeth 
Marsh,* of Haverhill; was settled in the ministry at Manchester, Essex 
County, in 1745, where he died, aged 70, greatly lamented. They had 
twelve children : Benjamin, Samuel, David, Wigglesworth, Mary, Abi- 
gail, Samuel, Ebenezer, Patty, Elizabeth, Michael, and Amos. 

Benjamin Tappan was born Oct. 21, 0. S., 1747. He was a gold- 
smith, and afterwards a merchant ; married Sarah Homes, of Boston, 
daughter of William Homes, Esq., whose mother was Mary, sister of 
Dr. Franklin. They lived at Northampton, Mass. Children : Sarah, 

* The longevity of tte Marsh family is remarkable. Elizabeth was the oldest of 
twelve children. Including their parents, the average age of the fourteen was eighty- 
four years two months and seventeen days ! 



TAPPAN. 375 

Benjamin, Kebecca, Lucy, William, John, Charles, Arthur, Lewis, 
Elizabeth, and George. Grandchildren, 72. 

B. T. died 1830, aged 88 ; S. T. died 1826, aged 76. They lived 
together happily fifty-nine years, honored in their day and generation. 
Nine children survived them. When young he spelled his name Tap- 
pen, while his father and the rest of the family spelled the name. Top- 
pan. At a family meeting after the decease of their father, it was agreed 
henceforth to spell the name Tappan. 

Sarah, b. 1771, m. Solomon Stoddard, Esq., of Northampton, Mass. 
Children : Solomon, Charles, William IL, Lewis T., John, Arthur 
Francis, Sarah, and David T. She died aged 80. 

Benjamin, b. 1773, m. Nancy Wright, of Farmiugtoi^ Conn., and 
afterwards Mrs. Lord. Children : Benjamin, and Eli T. 

Rebecca, b. 1775, m. William Edwards.* Children : William W., 
Henry, Ogden, Alfred, Elizabeth, Rebecca, Sarah H., Ann Maria; 
Amory, Elizabeth, and Richard C. 

Lucy, b. 1777, m. John Pierce, D.D. Children : Sarah T., Eliza- 
beth, Abigail L., Lucy, Feroline W., John T., Robert, William B., Ben- 
jamin T., and Mary W. 

William, b. 1779, m. Sarah Patterson. Children : Elizabeth, Sarah 
H., Lucy P., Ann, Jane, Charles, Mary, and Rebecca. 

John, b. 1781, m. Sarah Salisbury. Children : John G., Samuel 
S., Sarah S., Rebecca W., Lewis W., Mary S., Francis W., Elizabeth 
P., Lucy P., Henry E., Henry M., and Josiah S. In 1844 m. Mrs. 
Hannah Edwards. 

Charles, b. 1784, m. Ann Maria Long. Children : Charles L., Ann 
Maria, and George F. 

Arthur, b. 178G, m. Frances Autill. Children : Charlotte L., 
Edward A., Frances A., Sarah S., Elizabeth, Mary L., and Arthur. 

Lewis, b. 1788, m. Susanna Aspinwall. Children : Susanna, Julia 

* We wish to express our grateful remembrance of Colonel Edwards, who was 
the friend of our father and grandfather, and who honored us with his friend- 
ship. — Ed. 



376 THE GRANAKY BURIAL GROUND. 

A., Susan A., "William A., Lewis H., Elizabetli, Lucy Maria, Georgiana 
B., and Ellen A. In 1854, married Mrs. Sarah J. Davis. 

Elizabeth, b. 1790, m. Rev. Alexander Phoenix. Children : Rebec- 
ca, who m. Rev. David B. Coe. 

David Tappan, D.D., son of Rev. Benjamin Toppan, was born 1753; 
graduated at Harvard College ; was minister of West Newbury ; after- 
wards Professor of Divinity in Harvard College ; m. Mary Sawyer. 
Children : Sarah, Enoch, David, Mary, Benjamin, Hannah, George W,, 
Mary, and Eliza. 

Dr. Tappan died Aug. 27, 1803, aged 51, greatly beloved and widely 
lamented. 

Benjamin Tappan, D.D , of Augusta, Me., is the only surviving son 
of Professor Tappan. 

Wigglesworth, b. 1754, and d. 1794, m. a daughter of Deacon Chase, 
of Saeo. Children : Sarah, and Samuel. 

Mary, b. 1751, d. 1810, m. Josiah Fairfield, of Pepperelboro. 
Children : Priscilla, and William. Afterwards m. Aaron Burnham, of 
Scarborough. 

Abigail, b. 1757, m. Chase, of Portsmouth. Children : 

Stephen, Benjamin T., and John. Afterwards married John Baker. 
Child: Mary. 

Saipuel, b. 1759, d. 1806, m. Aurelia Bingham, of Manchester. 
Children : Aurelia, Amos, William B. Eliza (wife of Rev. Jonathan 
Bigelow), Daniel D., and Samuel. 

Ebenezer, b. 1761, m. Betsy Foster, of Manchester. Children: 
Ebenezer, Benjamin, Samuel, Israel, Betsy, Betsy, Sally, and Mary. 

Elizabeth, b. 1765, m. Chase, of Saco. Child : David T. 

Michael, b. 1763, m. . Children : Nancy, and Abigail. 

Amos, b. 1768, graduated at Harvard College 1788, m. Isabella 
Buckminster, sister of Rev. Dr. B., of Portsmouth, d. 1814. Both he 
and his brother Samuel were teachers, and active Christians, and were 
much beloved. 

Very many of the surviving members of these families, were they 



TAPPAN. 377 

consulted, would, in grateful recollection of the divine goodness and 
mercy, adopt, as the concluding sentiment of this catalogue of names 
and dates, the words of the poet : 

" Father of all, thy care we iless, 
Which crowns our families with peace ; 
From thee they sprang, and by thy hand 
They have been, and are still sustained," 

Brookhjn, N. T., Jan. 20th, 1856. L. T. 



378 THE GKANAKY BURIAL GROUND. 

THIS MONUMENT, ERECTED JUNE 4, 1848, BY 

ROBERT G. SHAW, 

SON OF FRANCIS SHAW, JR., AND HANNAH NICHELS, 
AS A TRIBUTE OF RESPECT TO THEIR MEMORY. 

MAJOR SAMUEL SHAW, 

THIRD SON OF FRANCIS AND SARAH, 
SERVED AS AN OFTICEK. IN THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR, 

FROM ITS COMMENCEMENT TO ITS CLOSE. 

ON THE 22d of FEBRUARY, 1784, HE SAILED FROM 

NEW YORK IN THE SHIP EMPRESS OF CHINA, FOR 

■ CANTON, AS SUPERCARGO AND PART OWNER. 

THIS BEING THE FIRST VESSEL THAT 

SAILED FROM THE UNITED STATES 

FOR THAT PLACE, HE WAS APPOINTED BY 

WASHINGTON CONSUL TO CHINA, 

WHICH OFFICE HE HELD UNTIL HIS DEATH, IN 1794. 

IN MEMORY OF 

FRANCIS SHAW, 
BORN IN BOSTON, 1721, DIED OCTOBER 18, 1784, AGED 64. 

SARAH BURT, 

HIS WIFE, BORN IN BOSTON, 1726, 

DIED SEPTEMBER, 1799, 

AGED 74. 

THEIR CHILDREN WERE: 

FRANCIS, JR. 

DIED AT GOULDBORO', MAINF 1785, AGED 37. 



INSCRIPTIONS. 379 

JOHN, 

DIED AT GOULDBORO', MAINE, 1780, AGED 30. 

SAMUEL, 

DIED ON HIS PASSAGE FROM CANTON, 1794, AGED 39. 

WILLIAM, 

DIED WHILE ON A JOURNEY AT CHARLEMONT, 1803, AGED 46. 

ABIGAIL, 

WIFE OF JOHN CROCKER, 
DIED AT WASHINGTON D. C. AUGUST 12, 1797, AGED 49. 

NATHANIEL, 
DIED ON HIS PASSAGE FROM CANTON, 1791 AGED 30. 

JOHN BURT, 
DIED JANUARY 7 1745, AGED 54. 

WILLIAM BURT, 

DIED FEBRUARY, 1752, AGED 26. 

SUSANNAH BURT, 

DIED FEBRUARY, 1752, AGED 21. 

SAMUEL BURT, 

DIED SEPTEMBER, 1754 AGED 30. 

ABIGAIL BURT, 

DIED AUGUST, 1778, AGED 90. 

BEN J. BURT, 
DIED 1803 AGED 75. 

NATH. HOWLAND, 

DIED JULY, 1766, AGED 62, AND 

ABIGAIL, 

HIS WIFE, DIED 1766, AGED 49, 

[The above inscriptions are from a Monument standing on Copp's Hill. | 



SHAW. 

The Pilgrim Fathers where are they ? 

The waves that brought theji o'er 
Still roll in the bay and throw their spray. 

As they break along the shore, — 
Still roll in the bay as they rolled that day 

When the May-Flower moored below ; 
When the sea around was black with storms, 

And white the shore with snow. 

The Pilgrim Fathers are at rest ; 

When Summer's throned on high, 
And the world's avarm breast is in verdure dress'd, 

Go stand on the hill wheke they lie. 
The earliest ray of the golden day 

On that hallowed spot is cast ; 
And the evening sun as he leaahes the world. 

Looks kindly on that spot last. — Pierpont. 

Abraham Shaw of Dedham, was a freeman in 1637. Anthony Shaw 
of Boston, whose son William was born in 1654. John Shaw was of 
Plymouth in 1638. John Shaw, of Boston, was a member of the ancient 
and honorable Artillery Company in 1646 ; had sons, John, born in 1648, 
was a freeman in 1681; Samuel, born in 1651 ; Joseph born in 1657. 
He died July 23, 1687. Joseph Shaw, of Hingham, removed to Bridge- 
water, and was among the settlers of that town. Joseph Shaw, of Ded- 
ham, in 1636, was a freeman in 1639, and probably of Weymouth in 
1643. Roger Shaw of Cambridge, in 1636, was a freeman in 1638. 



THORKDKE. 

He was there — 
Swathed in that linen vesture for the grave — 
The same loved one in all his comeliness — 
And with him to the grave her heart must go. 
What though he talk'd of her to angels ? nay— 
Hover'd in spirit near her ? — 'twas that arm, 
Palsied in death, whose fond caress she knew ! 
It was that lip of marble with whose kiss, 
Morning and eve, love hemm'd the sweet day in. — Willis. 

JctHN Thorndike settled in Ipswich in 1633, returned to England 
in 1668, and there died in 1670, leaving six daughters and one son, 
Lieut. Paul Thorndike, a representative of Beverly in 1680, where he 
resided. He married Mary Patch, in April, 1668, and had sons, John, 
born Jan. 22, 1674, Paul, and Herbert. John married Joanna Dodge, 
1696, and had sis sons. Paul married, and had ten sons, of whom 
Andrew, born Nov. 12, 1719, was father of Hon. Israel Thorndike, a 
wealthy merchant, of Boston, who was born in Beverly, Mass. In the 
Revolutionary war he was in part the owner, and commander of an armed 
ship. His cruises were successful. For many years he was a partner 
with his brother-in-law, Moses Brown, and afterwards engaged in com- 
merce to the East Indies and China, which he continued till his death. 
He was a large owner in manufacturing establishments. After a long 
residence in Beverly, he passed his last years in Boston, where he died. 
May 11, 1832, aged about 75 years. He purchased in 1818, the 
library of Professor Ebeling, of Hamburgh, of more than three thousand 



382 THE GRANAKY BURIAL GROUND. 

A'olumes, of great value ia relation to American history, and presented it 
to Harvard College. It includes three hundred and fifty volumes of 
newspapers printed in this country. To three sons he bequeathed each 
about half a million of dollars, and other sums to another son, to his 
widow, and daughters ; in all about eighteen hundred thousand dollars 
to his relations. Some poor man may be inclined to say that were he 
the owner of one or two millions of dollars, he would bequeath much to 
the great charities of the world ; but perhaps on gaining the power he 
would lose the disposition to benefit others beyond his own family, and 
would forget that of them to whom much as the stewards of Heaven 
had been given, much will be required. 



PALFREY. 

'Tis a harsh world, in which affection knows 

No place to treasure np its loved and lost 

But the foul grave ! Thou, who so late wast sleeping 

Warm in the close fold of a mother's heart, 

Scarce from her hreast a single pulse receiving 

But it was sent thee with some tender thought, 

How can I leave thee — here! — Willis. 

William John Palfrey, of Cambridge, 1658, was a constable in 1674. 
His children were : Rebecca, John, and Elizabeth. Peter, of Salem, 1836, 
one of the first inhabitants of that ancient town, and its representative 
in 1636. His children were : Jonathan, baptized in 1636 ; Jehodan, 
born 1636; Remember, born 1638; Mary, born 1639; and perhaps 
others. He removed to Reading, and there died, Sept. 15, 1663. De- 
scendants remain in the same place settled by him two hundred years 
ago, and one of them, Warwick Palfrey, Esq., has filled the same place 
in the government occupied by his ancestor. 



BARKETT. 

" As the long train 
Of ages glide away, the sons of men, 
The youth in life's green spring, and he who goes 
In the full strength of years, matron and maid, 
The bowed with age, the infant in the smiles 
And beauty of its innocent age cut off, — 
Shall, one by one, be gathered to thy side. 
By those, who in their turn shall follow them." — Bryant. 

Humphrey Barrett, of Concord, Mass., 1640, freeman in 1657. 
He died in November, 1662. His children were : Thomas, drowned in 
Concord River, 1660 ; Humphrey, a representative of Concord 1691, 
who had sons, Joseph and Benjamin ; and John, who settled in Marl- 
borough. Thomas died at Chelmsford, Oct. 6, 1668, leaving a son 
Thomas, and others. 



GREENLEAR 

Edmund Greenleaf was a freeman in Newbury in 1638. He is 
mentioned by Johnson as " ancient and experienced lieutenant " under 
Captain Gerrish in 1644. He removed to Boston, and died there. 
Stephen, his son, was born about 1630, he may have been of Boston in 
1657, but resided in Newbury, and was admitted freeman in 1677; 
elected Representative in 1676, and in 1686 he was Captain of the 
militia, and died Dee. 1, 1690. His sons were : Stephen, born Aug. 15, 
1652; John, born 21 June, 1662, died 24 May, 1734 ; Samuel, born Oct. 
30, 1665; Tristram, born Feb. 11, 1668; Edmund, born May 10, 1670. 
He had three daughters, who, with the soiiS, were all married. 



No. 16. 
TOMB OF HANCOCK.* 

" We must be unanimous," said Hancock, on signing the Declaration of Indepen- 
dence ; " there must be no pulling different ways." " Yes," answered Franklin, " we 
must all hang together, or most assuredly we must all hang separately" 

GOVERNOR HANCOCK. 

John Hancock, LL. D., Governor of Massachusetts, the son of Mr. 
Hancock of Braintree, was born 1737, graduated at Harvard College 
1754. On the death of his uncle, Thomas Hancock, he received a very 
considerable fortune, and soon became an eminent merchant. In 1766, 
he was chosen a member of the House of Representatives for Boston, 
with James Otis, Thomas Gushing, and Samuel Adams. The seizure of 
his sloop Liberty, in 1768, for evading the laws of trade, occasioned a 
riot, and several of the Commissioners of Customs narrowly escaped with 
their lives. K.% the controversy with Great Britain assumed a more seri- 
ous shape, and affairs were hastening to a crisis, he evinced his attach- 
ment to the rights of his country. 

He was President of the Provincial Congress in 1774. June 12th 
of the following year. General Gage issued his proclamation, offering 
pardon to all the rebels, excepting Sam'l Adams and John Hancock, 

* The Boston Athenajum overlooks the cemetery where repose the ashes of Gover- 
nor John Hancock, and Lieut. Governor Gushing. Though Sumner speaks of " Han- 
cock's broken column, " the idea is merely poetical, for no monument has ever been 
erected over his remains. — Loring's Hundred Orators. ' 



HANCOCK. 385 

" whose offences," it is declared, " are of too flagitious a nature, to ad- 
mit of any other consideration than that of condign punishment." Mr. 
Hancock was at this time a member of the Continental Congress, of 
which he was chosen President May 24th, in place of Peyton Randolph, 
who was under the necessity of returning home. In this office, us the 
head of the illustrious Congress of 1776, he signed the Declaration of 
Independence. In consequence of the ill state of his health, he took his 
leave of Congress in 1777, and received their thanks for his unremitted 
attention and steady impartiality in discharging the duties of his office. 
Henry Laurens was his successor. On the adoption of the present con- 
stitution of Massachusetts, he was chosen the first Governor in October, 
1780, and was annually re-elected, and continued in that office till Feb. 
1785, when he resigned. In 1787, he was again chosen in the place of 
James Bowdoin, and remained in the chair till his death, October 8th, 
1793, aged 56. His administration was very popular. 

It was apprehended by some, that on his accession, the dignity of 
government would not be sufficiently maintained ; but his language on 
assuming the chair was manly and decisive, and by his moderation and 
lenity, the civil convulsion was completely quieted, without the shedding 
of blood by the hand of the civil magistrate. 

Fourteen persons who received sentence of death were pardoned. In 
his public speeches to the Legislature he acquitted himself with a degree 
of popular eloquence, which is seldom equalled. In one of his last acts 
as Governor he supported, in a dignified manner, the sovereignty of the 
individual States. By a process commenced against Massachusetts, in 
favor of William Vassal, he was summoned by a writ to answer to the 
prosecution in the court of the United States. But he declined the 
smallest concession which might lessen the independence of the State, 
whose interests were entrusted to his care, and he supported his opinion 
with firmness and dignity. Litigations of this nature were soon after- 
wards precluded by an amendment of the Constitution of the United 
States. Mr. Hancock is represented as not possessing extraordinary 
powers of mind, and as not honoring the sciences very much by his per- 
sonal attentions. But he was easy in his address, polished in his man- 



386 THE GRANARY BURIAL GROUND. 

ners, affable aud liberal ; and as President of Congress he exhibited a 
dignity, impartiality, quickness of conception, and constant attention to 
business, which secured him respect. As the chairman of a deliberative 
body, few could preside with more reputation. In the early periods of 
his public career, it has been said that he was somewhat inconstant in his 
attachment to the cause of his country. Though this representation 
should be true ; yet from the commencement of the war the part which 
he took was decided and uniform, and his patriotic exertions are worthy 
of honorable remembrance. By the suavity of his manners and his insin- 
uating address, he secured an almost unequalled popularity. He could 
speak with ease and propriety on every subject. Being considered a 
Republican in principle, and a firm supporter of the cause of freedom, 
whenever he consented to be a candidate for Governor, he was chosen to 
that office by an undisputed majority. In private life he was charitable 
and generous. With a large fortune he had also a disposition to employ 
it for useful and benevolent purposes. The poor shared liberally in his 
bounty. He was also a generous benefactor of Harvard College. He 
published an Oration, which he delivered, on the Boston Massacre, 1774. 
Thatcher's Serm. on his death ; Gordon I. 508, 231 : II. 31 ; III. 18— 
21, 498 ; Warren I. 212, 215, 430 ; Minot's Hist. Insur. 179, 184 ; 
Holmes. 

STODDARB, BOWES, AND HANCOCK PEDIGREE. 

[The following lett/er will explain the reasons for inserting the accom- 
panying pedigree. It will be perceived, that, had the author of it been 
in possession of the previous publications of the register, he would have 
constructed a much more perfect account ; yet it is valuable as it is, and 
covild not be improved without redrafting, which might do injustice to 
the ingenious contributor. It is therefore admitted as it comes to hand. 
— Editor.] 

Valentine House, Brook-st., Upper Claptow^n, 

Near London, England, Sepi. 25th, 1855. 
To the Editor of the New England Historical and General Register. 
Sir: — On visiting the library of the British Museum, with a view 



HANCOCK. 387 

of tracing the eonneetion of my family (whicli came from Boston on the 
rupture of the United States with England) with that of Sir Martin 
Bowes, Lord Mayor of London, temp. Eliz., I discovered the existence 
of your Society, the volumes of which seem so full of interesting records 
of a similar nature, that I have ventured to address you, in the hope of 
your being able, by making my aim known, to assist me through some 
of your talented correspondents. 

•My object is to discover the individual of our name who first settled 
in America, and I enclose a short pedigree of all I have yet been able to 
learn of the families of Bowes, Hancock, and Stoddard, from my father's 
papers. John Hancock, the first President of Congress, and who as such 
signed the ever memorable " Declaration of Independence," was my 
grandfather's first cousin ; and William Bowes and John Hancock were 
left conjoint heirs to Thomas Hancock, Esq., their mutual uncle. 

I think that this circumstance will make the enclosed pedigree of in- 
terest to your readers, and perhaps induce them kindly to aid me in my 
researches. I know from the arms, that the first Nicholas Bowes men- 
tioned in the pedigree must have been a descendant of Sir Martin, the 
Lord Mayor (of whose family I have full accounts from records in this 
country), and most probably he was the son of the first of the name who 
emigrated to New England. The most common name in our family is 
William (no Nicholas occurring in the English pedigrees), and William, 
you will observe, is the name of the eldest son in every descent of the 
American family tree. The only relatives I have must be living in 
America at the present time. 

As I may not have sketched the Arms (which I have copied from 
the old family seals) correctly, I enclose my late father's old Book- 
plate. I have made my communication as short as possible, not to en- 
croach on your valuable pages, and trusting you will have the kindness 
by inserting this, to aid the object I have in view. 

I remain. Sir, your obedient servant, 

Arthur Bowes. 



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390 THE GKANAEY BUKIAL GROUND, 

BATTLE MONUMENT AT BLOODY BROOK. 

ERECTED 
AUGUST, 1831. 
ON THIS GROUND 
CAPT. THOMAS LATHROP, 
AND 
EIGHTY-FOUR 
MEN UNDER HIS 
COMMAND, INCLUDING 
EIGHTEEN TEAMSTERS FROM 
DEERFIELD, CONVEYING STORES 
FROM THAT TOWN TO HADLEY, WERE 
AMBUSCADED BY ABOUT 700 INDIANS, AND 
THE CAPTAIN AND SEVENTY-SIX MEN SLAIN, 
SEPTEMBER 18TH, 1765, (OLD STYLE.) THE SOL- 
DIERS WHO FELL, WERE DESCRIBED BY A CO- 
TEMPORARY HISTORIAN AS A CHOICE COMPANY 
OF YOUNG MEN, THE VERY FLOWER OF THE 
COUNTY OF ESSEX. NONE OF WHOM WERE 
ASHAMED TO SPEAK WITH THE ENEMY IN THE GATE. 

"and sanguinetto tells you" where the dead 

" made the eaeth wet and turned " the unwilling waters red. 

THE GRAVE OF THE SLAIN IS MARKED BY A 

STONE SLAB 21 RODS SOUTHERLY 

OF THIS MONUMENT. 



GRAVE 

OF 

CAPT. LATHROP, 

AND 

MEN SLAIN 

BY THE 

INDIANS , 

1675. 



LATHROP. 

The preceding monumeut stauds tliirty or forty rods southerly from 
the Congregational church. South-easterly from the monument is seen 
Sugar-loaf Mountain^ a conical peak of red sandstone, about six hun- 
dred and fifty feet in height. In 1835, the 160th anniversary of the 
destruction of Capt. Lathrop and his men was commemorated in this 
place. The Hon. Edward Everett, Governor of Massachusetts, was 
appointed orator for the occasion, and General Epaphras Hoyt, of Deer- 
field, was appointed to make the address at the laying of the corner 
stone for the monument. About six thousand persons were jiresent on 
this occasion. Governor Everett delivered his address under a walnut 



392 THE GRANARY BURIAL GROUND. 

tree. About forty years after Capt. Lathrop and his men were killed, a 
rude monument was erected to tlieir memory, but the different occupants 
of the soil removed it so many times that it was a matter of uncertainty 
where he or his men were buried. In 1835, the committee of investi- 
gation, guided by the tradition of some aged people, found the spot 
where he and about thirty of his men were interred ; the grave was just 
in front of the dooryard of Stephen Whitney, Esq., and about twenty 
feet north-west of his front door. Their bones were in a state of tolera- 
ble preservation, but fell to pieces on exposure to the air. " A grave, 
probably containing the bones of the ninety-six Indians who were slain 
on that day, was likewise found by accident about the same time, nearly 
one hundred rods west of the road leading from Bloody Brook to Con- 
way, by Mr. Artemas Williams, and a little more than half a mile south- 
west of the grave of Lathrop." 

The monument is six feet square, and about twenty feet in height ; 
it is constructed of marble, by Mr. Wood, of Sundei'land. On its 
completion, an address was delivered at its foot by Mr. Luther B. Lin- 
coln, of Deerfield. 

" For the distance of about three miles, after leaving Deerfield 
meadow, Lathrop's march lay through a very level country, closely 
wooded, where he was every moment exposed to an attack on either 
flank ; at the termination of this distance, near the south point of Sugar- 
loaf Hill^ the road approximated Connecticut Biver, and the left wa.s 
in some measure protected. At the village now called Muddy Broolc, 
in the southerly part of Deerfield, the road crossed a small stream, bor- 
dered by a narrow morass, from which the village has its name ; though 
more appropriately it should be denominated Bloody Brook, by which 
it was sometimes known. Before arriving at the point of intersection 
with the brook, the road for about half a mile ran parallel with the 
morass, then, crossing, it continued directly to the south point of Sugar- 
loaf Hill, traversing what is now the home lots, on the east side of the 
village. As the morass was thickly covered with brush, the place of 
crossing afforded a favorable point of surprise. On discovering La- 
throp's march, a body of upwards of seven hundred Indians planted them- 



LATHROP. 393 

selves in ambuscade at this point, and lay eagerly waiting to pounce 
upon him while passing the morass. Without scouring the woods in his 
front and flanks, or suspecting the snare laid for him, Lathrop arrived at 
the fatal spot ; crossed the morass with the principal part of his force, 
and probably halted to allow time for his teams to drag through their 
loads. The critical moment had arrived — the Indians instantly poured 
a heavy and destructive fire- upon the column and rushed furiously to 
close attack. Confusion and dismay succeeded. The troops broke and 
scattered, fiercely pursued by the Indians, whose great superiority 
enabled them to attack at all points. Hopeless was the situation of the 
scattered troops, and they resolved to sell their lives in a vigorous strug- 
gle. Covering themselves with trees, the bloody conflict now became a 
severe trial of skill in sharp shooting, in which life was the stake. Dif- 
ficult would it be to describe the havoc, barbarity, and misery that 
ensued ; ' fury raged, and shuddering pity quit the sanguine field,' while 
desperation stood pitted, at ' fearful odds,' to unrelenting ferocity. The 
dead, the dying, the wounded, strewed the ground in all directions ; and 
Lathrop's devoted force was soon reduced to a small number, and resist- 
ance became faint. At length, the unequal struggle terminated in the 
annihilation of nearly the whole of the English ; only seven or eight 
escaped from the bloody scene, to relate the dismal tale ; and the 
wounded were indiscriminately butchered. Capt. Lathrop fell in the 
early part of the action. The whole loss, including teamsters, amounted 
to ninety. 

Capt. Mosely, who was at Deerfield with his company, between four 
and five miles distant, hearing the musketry, hurried on to the relief of 
Lathrop, but it was too late ; he found the Indians had done their 
bloody work, and were stripping the dead. Rushing on in close order, 
he broke through the enemy, and, charging back and forth, cut down all 
within the range of his shot. After several hours of gallant fighting, 
the savages were compelled to seek for safety in the surrounding swamps 
and forests. Lieutenants Savage and Pickering greatly distinguished 
themselves by their skill and bravery. Just at the close of the action, 
Major Treat, of Connecticut, who, on the morning of this day had marched 



394 THE GRANARY BURIAL GROUND. 

towards Nortlifield, arrived ou the ground with one hundred men, con- 
sisting of English, Pequot, and Mohegan Indians, and shared in the 
final pursuit of the enemy. Capt. Mosely lost hut two men in the 
various attacks, and seven or eight only were wounded. The loss of the 
Indians in the various attacks of the day was estimated at ninety-six, 
the greatest proportion of which fell in the engagement with Mosely. On 
the approach of night, Treat and Mosely proceeded to Deerfield, where 
they encamped for the night, and th6 next morning returned to the field 
of slaughter to bury the dead. The day after this disaster, the Indians 
appeared at Deerfield, on the west side of the river in that town, and 
displaying the garments they had stripped from Lathrop's slain, made 
demonstrations of an attack on the fortified house, which then contained 
a garrison of only twenty-seven men. The commander held out delusive 
appearances of a strong force, — caused his trumpet signals to be given, 
as if to call in additional troops, which so intimidated the Indians that 
thew withdrew without making an attack. This post, however, was 
afterwards abandoned by the garrison, and the place was soon after 
destroyed by the enemy. 

Barnabas Lathrop, son of the following, was born at Scituate in 
1636, and settled in Barnstable. He married Susannah Clark in 1658. 
He was an assistant of Plymouth, and one of the first councillors of 
Massachusetts after its union with Plymouth under the charter of Wil- 
liam and Mary, in 1692. He died at Barnstable in 1756, aged seventy- 
nine. John, the first minister of Scituate and Barnstable, was educated 
at Oxforil, and was a clergyman in Kent County, and in London. Ar- 
rived at Plymouth from England in 1634, and soon settled at Scituate, 
from whence he removed, October 11th, 1639, to Barnstable, and died 
November 8, 1653. His sons were : Thomas, who settled in Barnstable ; 
Samuel, in New London, 1648 ; Joseph, in Barnstable ; Benjamin, in 
Charlestown; Barnabas and John, both at Barnstable. Of his daughters, 
were Jane and Barbara. Many of the Rev. John Lothrop's descend- 
ants have written the name Lathrop, of whom there appear fifteen on 
the catalogue of the different New England Colleges, whose names have 



LATHROP. 395 

this orthography. The true spelling of the name of the minister, as 
written by himself, appears to be Lothropp. — See 2. Coll. Mass. Hist. 
Soc. i., 173. 

Thomas, Salem, freeman 1634 ; member of the Ar. Co., 1645 ; repre- 
sentative, 1647, 1653, and 1664, was one of the founders of the church 
in Beverly, 1667 ; representative of Beverly, 1672 to 1675, four years ; 
was many years captain, and sustained that oflSce in Phillip's war, when, 
with more than sixty of his men, he was killed in battle near Deerfield, 
18th September, 1675. Increase Mather calls him a courageous com- 
mander. He left a wife, Bethlah, but no children. — Farmer. 

John Lathrop, the first minister of Scituate and Barnstable, Mass., 
was educated at Oxford, and was an Episcopal minister in Kent. About 
1624 he renounced his Episcopal orders, and was chosen the successor 
of Henry Jacob, who in 1616 became the pastor in London of the first 
Independent or Congregational church in England, but removed in 1624 
to Virginia, where he died. The congregation met in private houses. 
In April, 1632, the bishop seized and imprisoned 42 of them : 18 es- 
caped. Mr. L., after au imprisonment of two years, obtained liberty 
" to'depart the kingdom." Mr. Caime succeeded him. With about 30 
followers he came to New England in 1634. He removed from Scituate 
to Barnstable Oct. 11, 1639, and died Nov. 8, 1653. He was meek, 
humble, learned, and faithful. His successors were Walley, Russell, and 
Shaw. He left several sons and daughters ; his son, Samuel, who set- 
tled at Norwich, Conn., was the ancestor of those who bear the name in 
Connecticut, New York, and Vermont. Mr. L. wrote his name Lo- 
thropp ; Morton wrote it Laythrop ; some of his descendants in Ply- 
mouth County still write it Lothrop, as the word is pronounced in Mass., 
but it is generally written Lathrop. A descendant at Norwich, Dr. 
Joshua L., died Oct. 29, 1807, aged 84. Two of his letters to Governor 
Prince are in 2 Hist. Col. i. 171. 

Joseph Lathrop, D. D., minister of West Springfield, Mass., a de- 
scendant of the preceding, was the son of Solomon and Martha L., and 
was born at Norwich, Conn., Oct. 20, 1731. After the decease of his 
father in 1733, his mother removed to Bolton. He graduated at Yale 



396 THE GEANAEY BURIAL GROUND. 

College in 1750, having first made a profession of religion. Becoming 
the teacher of a school at Springfield, he studied theology with Mr. 
Breck, and was ordained August 25, 1756, and was pastor 63 years. In 
1819, Mr. Sprague was settled as his colleague. He died Dec. 31, 1820, 
aged 89. His wife, Elizabeth,, daughter of Capt. Seth Dwight, of Hat- 
field, died in 1821. His son has been President of the Senate. He 
stood as the patriarch of the congregational churches : no minister was 
more respected and venerated. He was as eminent for candor and char- 
ity, as he was devout and holy in life. As a writer he was remarkably 
perspicuous, plain and useful. His publications were numerous and more 
extensively known, than those of any contemporary theologian of this 
country. They consisted of sermons, six volumes of which were pub- 
lished during his life, on various subjects, chiefly practical. After his 
death an additional volume was published, accompanied by a memoir of 
his life, written by himself. This autobiography is remarkable for .its 
simplicity and candor. His sermons were published, 2 vols. 1796 ; 1 
vol. 1806 ; 5 vols. 2d edit. 1807-9 ; and a volume of discourses on the 
Epistle to the Hebrews, 8vo. 1801. He published also the following 
sermons : on the death of R. Breck, 1784 ; of Dr. Gray, Suffield ; of Dr. 
G.'s wife, 1796 ; of Mrs. Whitney, 1800 ; of Rev. Mr. Atwater, 1802 ; 
of four young women drowned at Southwick, 1809 ; at a thanksgiving 
relating to the insurrection, 1786; the perspicuity of the Scriptures in 
American preachers, 1791 ; four discourses on baptism, 1793 ; on the 
dismission of Mr. Willard of Wilbraham, 1794; on American inde- 
pendence, 1794 ; at a thanksgiving, 1795 ; a century discourse for the 
town ; to children, 1796 ; God's challenge to infidels, at a fast, 1797 ; 
at a fast, 1798 ; also, 1803 ; also 1808 ; at the ordination of Mr. Ball, 
1797 ; of Mr. Bemis, 1801 ; of E. D. Andrews, 1807 ; of Thaddeus 
Oogood, 1808; century sermon, 1800; at the dedication of Westfield 
Academy, 1800 ; before a missionary society, 1802 ; on leaying the old 
meeting-house ; dedication of the new, 1802 ; two discourses on the Sab- 
bath, 1803 ; two on the church of God, 1804; on old age; on suicide, 
two sermons ; on the drought ; on the opening of the bridge, 1805 ; on 
Christ's warning to churches ; on the consulting of the witch of En- 



LATHROP. 397 

dor; on thesolareclip.se, 1806; warniug to beware of false prophets. 
1811. 

John Latlirop, D. D., minister in Boston, a great grandson of John 
L. of Barnstable, was born in Norwich, Conn., Maj 17, 1740, and was 
one of ten sons. He graduated at Princeton College in 1763, and soon 
afterwards became an assistant to Mr. Wheelock in his Indian school at 
Lebanon. He was ordained May 18, 1768, at the Old North Church, 
Boston, where the Matheis were ministers. In 1779, his society having 
united with Dr. Pemberton's, of the New Brick Church, their own church 
being demolished by the enemy, he became the pastor of the united so- 
ciety, called the Second Church. He died Jan. 4, 1816, aged 75. He 
was an officer of various literary and charitable societies. He published 
the following sermons : soon after 5th March, 1770 ; on early piety, 1771 ; 
at the artillery election ; at the thanksgiving, 1774 ; on 5th March, 1778 ; 
on the death of his wife, Mary L., 1778; of S. West, 1808; of his wife, 
Elizabeth L., 1809; of J. Eckley, 1811; of J. Eliot, 1813; at the or- 
dination of W. Bentley, 1783 ; on the peace, 1784; before the Humane 
Society, 1787 ; catechism, 1791 ; Dudleian lecture on Popery, 1793 ; 
before the Fire Society, 1796 ; at the Thursday lecture, 1797 ; at Brat- 
tle street, 1798; on the fost, 1799; on the commencement of the 19th 
century ; before the Society for Propagating the Gospel ; before the Fe- 
male Asylum ; at Milton, 1804 ; at the thanksgiving, 1808 ; at the same, 
1811 ; a birthday discourse, 1812 ; at the fast, 1812 ; on the law of re- 
taliation, 1814 ; on the peace; history of the late war, 1815. — Park- 
man''s Serm. 

John Lathrop, son of the preceding, was born in Boston, 1772, and 
was graduated at Harvard College in 1789. Having studied law, he 
settled at Dedham ; but soon returning to Boston, he devoted himself to 
literary and social indulgence with Paine, Prentice, and others, neglect- 
ing his profession. Embarking for India, he lived at Calcutta 10 years, 
teaching a school, and writing for the journals. In 1809 he returned 
and engaged in the business of teaching, and gave lectures on natural 
philosophy. In 1819 he proposed to publish a work on the manners and 
customs of India. He went to the South, and delivered lectures. At 



398 THE GKANARY BURIAL GROUND. 

last he obtained a place in the post-office. He died at Georgetown, Jan. 
30, 1820, aged 48. Improvident and destitute of foresight, his talents 
scarcely ^jrocured him subsistence. He published an oration July 4, 
1796 ; speech of Canonicus, a poem, Calcutta, 1802 ; the same, Boston, 
1803 ; pocket register and free-mason's anthology, 1813. — Spec. Amer. 
Poetry, ii. 101-108. 



INDEX. 



Abraham, Nathan, 208. 
Adams, John Q., 72. 
Adams, Isaac, .30. 
Adams, John, 82. 
Adams, Thomas, 184. 
Adams, Thomas, 282. 
Adams, John Quiucy, 130. 
Allen, James, 19. 
Alden, Ruth, 126. 
Allyn, Samuel, 34. 
AUine, William, 186. 
Allen, Hannaii, 19. 
Allen, James, 20. 
Allen, Elizabeth, 19. 
Allen, Silence, 64. 
Allen, Jeremiah, 77. 
Allen, Martha, 283. 
Allen, Elizabeth, 281. 
Amory, William, 71. 
Amory, Simon, 178. 
Amory, Thomas C-, 71. 
Amory, Rebecca, 67. 
Amory, Jonathan, 67. 
Amory, S. H. L., 71. 
Amory, John, 46. 
Amos, Mary, 209. 
Andrews, Samuel, 282. 
Andrews, Thomas, 209. 
Andrews, S. S., 22. 
Andrews, George, 238. 
Andres, Edmund, 2. 
Anthony, Samuel, 119. 
Apthorp, Charles, 215. 
Archer, Elizabeth, 50. 
Armitage, John, 118. 



Archibald, Aaron, 75. 
Ashton, John, 153. 
Ashley, Ann, 197. 
Attucks, Crispus, 174. 



B 

Bacon, Rev., 55. 
Bacon, John, 60. 
Barlow, Henry, 169. 
Badouin, Pierre, 2. 
Barrett, Humphrey, 384, 
Barrett, Benjamin, 384. 
Barrett, John, 11. 
Babcock, A lam, 117. 
Baldwin, Thomas, 161. 
Baldwin, Thomas, 180. 
Bates, Is&r.c C, 35. 
Bates, Mehitable S., 35. 
Brazer, Mary, 28. 
Bassett, Mary, 185. 
Bass, Gillam, 124. 
Bass, Moses, 123. 
Bass, Susannah, 313. 
Bass, John, 126. 
Baxter, Joseph, 8. 
Bailey, John, 20. 
Bayly, John, 320. 
Baker, Letitia, 64. 
Ballard, John, 12. 
Ballard, Mary, 242. 
Ballard, Dorcas, 243. 
Butolph, Nicholas, 42. 
Belknap, Mary, 65. 



Belknap, Andrew, 13. 
Belknap, 63. 
Belknap, Jeremy, 103. 
Belknap, Mary, 103. 
Belcher, Governor, 68. 
Belcher, Josias, 111. 
Belcher, Jonathan, 219. 
Belcher, Governor, 56. 
Bethune, SH. 
Bethune, George, 73. 
Bean, Joseph, 123. 
Bean, Horace, 123. 
Bean, Mary, 124. 
BaU, John, 316. 
Bender, Barbary, 211. 
BelUnghani, Richard, 15. 
Berry, Withers, 78. 
Bell, Miriam, 32. 
Blake, Edward, 154. 
Blake, Edward, 11. 
Blake, George, 364. 
Black, Samuel, 77. 
Blagdeu, Rev. 55. 
Blood, John, 138. 
Blanchard, Joshua, 63. 
Blanchard, .Jedediah, 101. 
Bemmes, Samuel, 62. 
Binny, Stillman, 118. 
Birrey, Joseph, 169. 
Binny, Barnabus, 119. 
Binnev, Horace, 119. 
Binnev, Edith, 122. 
Binuey, C. J. F., 119. 
Bird, Mary, 217. 
Brooks Joshua, 148. 



400 



INDEX. 



Brooks, John, 38. 

Bingham, Benajah, 52. 

Brown, Elisha, 162. 

Browne, Mary, 370. 

Brown, Mary, 61. 

Broomfield, Edward, 13. 

Bro(/mf5eld, 56. 

Braftle, Thomas, 317. 

Brattle, 56. 

Bradbury, Charles, 302. 

Brad, William, 109. 

Bradish, Sarah, 188. 

Brocklebank, Captain, 218. 

Brewster, Oliver, 111. 

Bradle}^ Thomas and 
John, 52. 

Butler, Tierce, 265. 

Butler, Edward, 272. 

Butler, Mary, 274. 

Butler, Benjamin, 265. 

Butler, Simeon, 274. 

Bodmau, John, 133. 

Boynton, Edraond, 108. 

Bowes, Arthur, 387. 

Bowdoin, James and fam- 
ily, 17. 

Bowyer, James, 181. 

Boynton, Sarah, 243. 

Boyer, Susannah, 258. 

Bourn, Medateah, 9. 

Bowen, Elizabeth, 73. 

Bowrman, Joan, 39. 

Butler, EUza, 268. 

Butler, Amos, 265. 

Butler, Mary Ann, 272. 

Butler, Lrwis, 272. 

Butler Family, 260. 

Burastead, Sarah, 9. 

Bumstead, Thomas, 9. 

Bumstead, Thomas, 8. 

Bumstead, Edward, 156. 

Bumstead, Thomas, 156. 

Burt, Sarah, 378. 

Burt, William, 337. 

Burt, Joan, 125, 

Bush, Jotham, 177. 

Burr, Elizabeth, 314. 

Bullard, Jabez, 21. 

Beebe, James W., 313. 

Butolph, Mary, 42. 

Byles, Sarah, 175. 

Byles, Josias, 175. 



Cabot, Sebastian, 195. 
Cabbott, George, 193. 
Cabbot, John, 194. 



Cabbott, George, 10. 
Cad well, James, 174. 
Caldwell, Robert, 158. 
Caldwell, Elizabeth, 158. 
Campbell, Sally, 255. 
Campbell, John, 5. 
Campbell, Sally, 179. 
Carter, Mary, 51. 
Carter, Ruth, 114. 
Carr, Patrick, 174. 
Callam, Abigail, 51. 
Carrick, John, 78. 
Carsell, Mary, 321. 
Child, John, 200. 
Childs, Timothy, 201. 
Child, Ephraim, 201. 
Child, Jean, 200. 
Child, John, 320. 
ChUd, Robert, 200. 
Cheever, Wm. D., 32. 
Cheever, Wm. D., 209. 
Chickley, John, 190. 
Chickley, Richard, 80. 
Chapman, Jonathan, 174. 
Cotting, Uriah, 11. 
Chambers, Charles, 164. 
Chauncey, Charles, 130. 
Clark, Enos, 311. 
Clark, John, 108. 
Clark, Frederick, 306. 
Clark, John, 174. 
Clark, John, 185. 
Clark, Mary Ann, 66. 
Clark, Luther, 311. 
Clark, Christian, 306. 
Clark, Geo. A., 312. 
Clark, Temperance, 312. 
Clark, Thomas, 313. 
Clark, Luther, 312. 
Clark, Arthur and fam- 

fly, 307. 
Clark, Frederick, 184. 
Clark, Mary, 203. 
Clark, Peter, 306. 
Clarke, Katharine, 306. 
Clark, Elijah, 312. 
Claghorn, Wm., 98. 
Colesworthy, John, 314. 
Colesworthy, John, 30. 
Colesworthy, Gilbert, 206. 
Coolidge, Cornelius, 158 
Coffin, Wm., 68. 
Cotton, 56. 
Cotton, John, 25. 
Cottmg, Uriah, 46. 
Cotting, Amos, 46. 
Codman, Robert, 358. 
Codman, Henry, 72. 
Cobham, Deborah^ 184. 



Cobham, Mary, 278. 
Cowel, John, 48. 
Cowel, Hannah, 254. 
Conell, Benjamin, 167. 
Coleman, Benjamin, 108. 
Coleman, Benjamin, 121. 
Cowel, Hannah, 48. 
Coverly, Wells, 11. 
Compton, William, 24. 
Cook, Sophia, 312. 
Cook, Edwin C, 1 89. 
Colson, Mary, 133. 
Colesworthy, John, 303. 
Cordis, William, 338. 
Connigham, Ruth, 186. 
Crisp, Sarah, 107. 
Crus, Thomas, 77. 
Cruikshanks, Alex'r, 171. 
Croskeys, Joseph, 67. 
Crawford, John, 258. 
Crawford, Thomas, 160. 
Cushing, Thomas, 13. 
Cashing, Thomas, 214. 
Cushing, Samuel, 76. 
Cushing, Peter, 353. 
Cushing, Thomas, 12. 
Cushing, Albany, 121. 
Cunningham, Mary, 8. 
Cunningham, E. L., 73. 
Cunningham, Jos. L., 73. 
Cunningham, John, 38. 
Cunningham, Andrew, 11. 
Cunningham, Andrew, 8. 
Cunningham, Andrew, 145. 
Cunningham, Mary, 145. 
Gumming, Mr., 60. 
Gumming, Rev., 55. 
Cutler, Ruth, 135. 
Cutler, James, 71. 
Cutler, Ruth, 60. 
Curtis, Charles P., 367. 



I) 

Davis, Jonathan, 72. 
Davis, J. Amory, 72. 
Davis, Francis, 72. 
Davis, Amory, 72. 
Davis. Edward A., 72. 
Davis, Daniel, 96. 
Dashwood, Samuel, 199 
Dana, Francis, 83. 
Dalton, Peter, HI. 
Dalton, M., 9. 
Davenport, John, 55. 
Daille, Seyre, 134. 
Deblois, Thomas A., 71. 
Deblois, Stephen, 71. 



INDEX. 



401 



Deblois, John A., 71. 
Demming, Jane, 63. 
Pemming, Honorah, 63 
Demming, Mary, 62.' 
Demming, Joseph, 64. 
Demming, Samuel, 63. 
Demming, David, 62. 
Demming, Hannali, 64. 
Decoster, John, 221. 
Decoster, John, 301. 
Decoster, Sarah, 221. 
Dexter, J. M. 99. 
Dexter, Samuel, 83. 
Dexter, Aaron, 71. 
Deshon, Moses, 241. 
Deshon, Persis, 241. 
Deverex, Patrick, 78. 
Delano, Jeremiah, 65. 
Dicks, S.amuel, 53. 
Dix, Samuel, 79. 
Derby, John, 32. 
Derby, John, 208. 
Dickinson, Josiah, 188. 
Dickson, William, 316. 
Dibble, Ezra, 302. 
Dillaway, Samuel, 65. 
Dolbeare, John, 303. 
Dolliver, Peter, 303. 
Downing, John, 40. 
Downing, John, 206. 
Dooley, Eleazer, 65. 
Dogget, Noah, 186. 
Doane, Jane, 367. 
Dorr, J. H. and S., 152. 
Draper, Samuel, 279. 
Draper, Deborah, 241. 
Draper, Lorenzo, 158. 
Draper, Richard, 159. 
Draper, Lydia, 159. 
Drowne, Samuel, 173. 
Dudley, Thomas, and fam- 
ily, 23. 
Dummer and Powell, 362. 
Dummer, Stephen, 128. 
Durvage, Ann, 64. 
Dumaresq, Magdalin, 257. 
Dumaresq, Magdilain, 257 
Dyer, John, 303. 



Edward, R^, 115. 
Edward, I., 115. 
Edward, III., 115. 
Eastbrook, Abigail, 



>4. 



Eastbrook, Richard, 255. 
Eckley, Rev., 55. 
Eckley, Joseph, '31. 
Eckley, David, 73. 
Eliot, Mary, 197. 
Elliot, Simeon, 97. 
Eliot, Sarah, 197. 
EHot, Simon, 336. 
Eliot, John, 98. 
Eliot, Andrew, 206. 
Eliot, John, 197. 
Eliot, Margaret, 315. 
Eliot, Ruth, 206. 
Elliot, 56. 
Elliott, Asaph, 50. 
Elliott, Silence, 192. 
Eliott, Elizabeth, 314. 
ElUott, Jacob. 192. 
Elliott, Samuel, 22. 
Elliott, Asaph, 192. 
Ellis, Anna, 32. 
EUis, William, 31. 
Ellis, Edward, 31. 
Elias, Eliza, 220. 
Ely, Jane, 50. 
Emmons, Hannah, 349. 
Emmons, Joshua, 154. 
Emmons, Mary, 178. 
Emmons, Mary, 80. 
English, John, 38. 
Erving, John,- 9- 
Eveleth, Sarah, 8. 
Eyre, Bethia, 35. 



Farris, William, 53. 
\/Faneuil, Peter, 212. 
Felt, Joseph B., 359. 
Felt, George; 359. 
P'ellows, Lydia, 73. 
Fillebrown, Thomas, 257. 
Fillebrown, John, 257. 
Fitch, Joseph, 219. 
Fitch, Mary, 52. 
Fitch, Jonathan, 52. 
Fisher, Thomas, 68. 
Fitzmaurice, Elizabeth, 67. 
Fisk, Mary, 63. 
Flagg, David, 180. 
Flagg, Gersham, 199. 
Fletcher, Deborah, 12. 
Fletcher, Lucy, 73. 
Folger, Abiah, 14. 
Fowle.*, Mary, 349. 
Fdwle, Thomas, 201. 



Eastbrook, Benjamin, 254. | Fo-ster, Abigail, 64. 
Estabrook, Joseph, 148. i Franklin, Josiah, 323. 



Franklin, Jonah, 13. 
Franklin, Benjamin, 14. 
Franklin, Benjamin, 334 
Frike, J. and E., 32. 
Freeman, Colonel. 73. 
Funel, P., 101. 
Fynes, Henry, 25. 



Garrett, Susannah, 240. 
Gallop, Mary, 100. 
Gallason, Henry, 131. 
Gardner, Nicholas, 159. 
Gardner, David, 30. 
Gardner, Sarah, 72. 
Galpine, John, 101. 
Gage, Gov., 3. 
Giles, Mary, 29. 
Giles, Mary, 208. 
Gibbon, W. & J., 64. 
Gidney, Hannah, 269. 
Gore, Christopher, 69. 
Gore, Elizabeth, 155. 
Gore, Sarah, 155. 
Gore, Christopher, 155. 
Goose, Isaac, 224. 
Goodwin, 0., 1 17. 
Goodman, Mrs. Ellen 

D., 253. 
Goddard, Wm., 177. 
Gould, Hannah, 218. 
Gorgus, Rebecca, 208. 
Gooch, Wm., 76. 
Goldthwait, Ezekiel, 60. 
Green, Rufus, 70. 
Gray, Mary, 346. 
Gray, G. W., 10. 
Gray & Blake, 62. 
Gray, Wm., 357. 
Green, Anna, 29. 
Green, Catharine, 70. 
Gee, Peter, 190. 
Gee, Grace, 190. 
Geer, John, 145. 
Geyer, Nancy, 73. 
Greenough, Wm. W., 366. 
Greenough, Wm., 366. 
Greenough, David S., 366. 
Gray, Abigail, 66. 
Gray, Edward, 356. 
Gray, Samuel, 174. 
Gray, Wm., 346. 
Graj^, Benjamin, 172. 
Greenlcaf, Jonatlian, 102. 
Grcenlcaf, Martha, 102. 
Greenleaf, Edmoud, 384. 
Greenleai; Sam'l., 102. 



402 



Greenleaf, Moses, 102. 
Green, John, 174. 
Green, Lydia, 279. 
Grant, Patrick, 149. 
Greaves, Thos., 164. 
Grainger, Hannah, 321. 
Green, Garden, 180. 
(iuild, Charles, 21. 
Guteridge, Robert and fam- 
ily, 66. 
Giles, Mary, 340. 



H. 

Hawes, Annie Gray, 35. 

Hawes, Prince, 35. 

Harriss, William, 39. 

Harriss, William, 107. 

Hale, Benjamin, 65. 

Hatch, Asaph, 65. 

Hayden, Ezekiel, 142. 

Hayden, Anne, 220. 

Hancock, John, 383. 

Hancock, Frank, 320. 

Hale, Octavia, 342. 

Hale, Nathan, 342. 

Hale, Hugh, 154. 

Hale, Enoch, 342. 

Hales, Kichard, 78. 

Hall, Ann, 242. 

Hall, Willis, 114. 

Hall, William, 242. 

Haynes, Maybel, 245. 

Haynes, Governor, 364. 

Havirks, Joseph, 111. 

Haskins, Lydia, 367. 

Hainatt, J. B. & C, 11. 

Hewes, George, 102. 

liewes, Robert, 100. 

Hewes, Martha, 101. 

Hewes, Geoi-ge & Ann, 369. 

Henry, HI., 115. 

Henry, VII., 1 15. 

Heaton, Susannah, 239. 

Henshaw, Samuel, 189. 

Hill, James, 130. 

Hill, Henry, 146. 

Hill, Joseph, 279. 

Hirst, Elizabeth, 130. 

Hirst, Grove, 130. 

Hinea, Emily, 313. 

Hills, John, 134. 

Hilyer, Sam., 158. 

Higgins, Christian, 185. 

Hichborm, S., 9, 
"Harper, James, 38. 
■ Hudson, Hannah, 43. 

Hooton, John, 125. 



Hooton, Sarah, 125. 
Hooton, Richard, 125. 
Hooton, John, 314. 
Hooton, Richard, 228. 
Holyoke, Samuel, 280. 
Holyoke, Elizure, 280. 
Holmes, Geo., 338. 
Holmes, Rebecca, 68. 
Homer, Benj. Parrott, 165. 
Homer, David and James, 

153. 
Holbrook, Abiah, 116. 
Holbrook, Rebecca, 116. 
Hosmer, Thomas, 187. 
Howe, Gen'l., 68. 
Holden, Josiah, 138. 
Hooker, Anson, 142. 
Howell, John, 63. 
Hoog, Agnes, 322.' 
Howard, Henry, 24. 
Houghton, Rowland, 167. 
Houstin, Rebecca, 67. 
Hunt, Rev'd, 55. 
Hunt, Richard, 30. 
Hunt, John, 180. 
Hunt, John, 60. 
Hvnt, Edward, 187. 
Hvnt, Jonathan, 187. 
Hvnt, Martha, 187. 
Hunt, Thos. M., 188. 
Hunt, Samuel, 1 73. 
Hvnt, G. Washington, 188. 
Huntington, Rev'd, 55. 
Hubbart, Thomas, 207. 
Huntington, B., 303. 
Huntington, Ralph, 131. 
Hubbell, Abraham, 300. 
Hubbard, Thomas, 177. 
Hubbard, TuthiU, 172. 
Hubbart, Mary, 28. 
Hutchinson, Gov., 3. 
Hutchinson, James, 145. 
Hutchinson, Sarah, 282. 
Hubbart, Thomas, 28. 
Hutchins, John, 243. 
Hurd, Nathaniel, 320. 
Hurd, Sarah, 35. 
Hunt, Sarah, 189, — 
Hun, Margaret, 242. 
Hull, John, 129. 
Hunter, Marian & Ann, 

258. 
Hyslop, Wm., 83. 
Hyslop, Elizabeth, 83. 



Ireland, Wm., 369. 



Inches, Rachael, 185. 
Ingersoll, Josiah, 165. 
Ives, Robert, 73. 
Ings, Avis, 119. 



James, Benjamin, 118. 
Jackerman, Hannah, 135. 
Jackson, Jon'a., 76. 
Jackson, Martha, 219. 
Jackson, Thomas, 302. 
Jackson, Johnson, 111. 
Jefferson, Tliomas, 6. 
Jeffei-son, Thomas, 201. 
Jeffries, John, 214. 
Jefiries, John, 58. 
Jenks, Doctor, 7. 
Johnson, Joseph, 67. 
Johnson, Samuel, 99. 
Jones, Daniel, 210. 
Johonnot, Andrew, 181. 
Johnston, Ehzabeth, 240. 
Johnston, Euphemia, 300. 
Johnston, Sam'l , 300, 



Kendal, Sewall, 52. 
Kerry, Lord, 67. 
Kelly, Elizabeth, 240. 
Kilby, Richard, 135. 
Kilby, Thomas, 221. 
Kilby, Christopher, 220. 
Kilby, John, 221. 
Kilby, John, 135. 
Kirkland, Saxah, 73. 
Kirkland, President, 73. 
King, Rufus, 156. 
Kirkes, Thomas, 279. 
Kingsbury, Surah, 269. 
Kneeland, Mary, 35. 
Kneeland, Lydia, 48. 
Knowles, Samuel, 240. 
Knapp, Samuel L., 88. 



Lathrop, John, 397. 
Lathrop, Joseph, 395. 
Lathrop, Thomas, 390. 
Lathrop, Russell, 245. 
Lawrence, Abbott, 72. 
Lawrence, Luther, 142. 
Lawrence, Amos, 138. 
Lane, John Murray, 118. 



INDEX. 



403 



Lane, IVTarj', 21. 

Lane, John, 220. 

Lane, Oliver W., Jr., 118. 

Lakin, Nathaniel, 138. 

Lasinby, Joseph, 154. 

Lamb, Rebecca & Abigail, 

64. 
Langdon, Jonah, 48. 
Leverett, Knight, 42. 
Leverett & Phillips, 42. 
Leverett, John, 108. 
Leverett, John, 43. 
Le Barron, Lazarus, 181. 
Lee, Abraham, 182. 
Lee, Joseph, 182. 
Lee, Walter, 183. 
Lee, Wm., 97. 
Lee, John, 182. 
Lee, Jeremiah, 10. 
Lee, Joseph, 10. 
Lee, W. Raymond, 73. 
Leitiier, Geo., 281. 
Lpgg, Samuel, 22. 
Lendall, James, 166. 
Lewis, Barnabas, 134. 
Leach, Thomas, 77. 
Lincoln, Luther B., 391. 
Lincoln, Countess of, 25. 
Linzee, John, 71. 
Linzee, Hannah R., 71. 
Lloyd, Henry, 203. 
LoweU, John, 304. 
Lowell, John, 73. 
Lowell, John, 1G4. 
Lowell, WiUiara, 209. 
Lowell, Joseph, 238. 
Lowell, James, 173. 
Lowell, Richard, 304. 
LoweU, AbigaU, 238. 
Lowell, Benjamin, 304. 
Loring, Thomas, 350. 
Loring, Charles G., 73. 
Lormg, Caleb G., 142. 
Loring, Caleb, 350. 
Lorel, Mr., 103. 
Lock, Margaret, 220. 
Lodge, Giles, 102. 
Longley, George, 282. 
Lovering, Esther, 349. 
Luddington, C, 159. 
Luscomb, Humphrey, 107. 
Lyman, Elizabeth, 312. 
Lyman, Robert, 312. 
Lyde, 280. 



Mather, Cotton, 43. 
Maverick, Samuel, 174. 



Maybury, John, 347. 
McCarty, Charles, and fa- 
mily, 49. 
Maggy, James, 321. 
Mahony, Sarah, 211. 
Main, Nancy, 321. 
Martin, Samuel, 254. 
May, Sally, 185. 
May, Joseph, 174. 
May, Enoch, 185. 
Magner, John, & family, 37. 
Maodonnell, G. J., 38. 
Macdonnell, L. W., 38. 
Mason, Arthur, 147. 
Masou, David, 147. 
Mason, Joanna, 147. 
Mason, Mary, 147. 
Mason, George, 147. 
Maynard, Rachael, 271. 
Manning, John, 217. 
Mackay, John, 257. 
Mackay, Alexander, 239. 
Mackay, M., 109. 
Mackay, P. B., 239. 
Mackay, John, 257. 
McFaddan, Martha, 278. 
McClinch, Nancy, 145. 
McKown, John, 340. 
McNeil, Hector, 160. 
McNeil, Robert, 300. 
McMillen, Jas. & Jane, 322. 
McLane, John, 73. 
McClure, Samuel, 348. 
Merry, Jona., 53. 
Messinger, Ehzabeth, 123. 
Meredith, Samuel, 72. 
Miam, Ehzabeth, 255. 
Minzies, Katharine, 121. 
Mmzies, John, 120. 
Middleton, Arthur, 67. 
Minott, Stephen, 223, 
Minott, Judge, 15. 
Minott, 76. 
Minott, James, 290. 
Minott, Geo., & famUy, 284. 
Minott, Rebecca, 291. 
Mills, Sarah, 188. 
Morris, Mary, 41. 
Morris, Charles, 40. 
Morris, Esther, 41. 
Montfort, Hugo de, 115. 
Montfort, Tiurstainde, 115. 
Mountfort, Henry, 114. 
Mountfort, Edmoad, 281. 
Mountfort, Edmund, 11-. 
Morden, Elizabeth, 239. 
Monk, Christopher, 174. 
Moody, Joshua, i;JU. 
Morton, Perez, 15. 



Moold, Mary, 197. 
Morrell, James, 302. 
Mooi-cock, Nicholas, 209. 
Molineaux, John, 152. 
Munroe, Wm., 8. 



N 

Nazro, Mary, 31. 
Nelson, Phillip, 304. 
Newman, Deborah, 12. 
Newman, Henry, 12. 
Newcomb, Jos. Warren, 228. 
Newell, Elizabeth, 99. 
Newell, Timothy, 69. 
Newell, Timothy, 68. 
Newell, Elizabeth and Ann, 

336. 
Nelson, William, 107. 
Nicherson, Ebenezer, 52. 
Nichols, James, 259. 
Norton, John, 55. 
Noyes, Oliver, 76. 





Ohver, Pierre, 8. 
Oswald, Andrew, 348. 
Osborn, John, 207. 
Otis, James, 236. 
Otis, James, 134. 
Oursel, Mr. 67. 



Palmer, Lisley, 179. 
Page, Asa, 22. 
Palfrey, Wm., 52. 
Palfrey, Wm. John, 382, 
Payson, Thomas, 302. 
PaUere, Phillip, 256. 
PaUere, Margaret, 368. 
Patridge, Rebecca and Sam- 
uel, 370. 
Paddock, Adino, 12. 
Parker, Benjamin, 198. 
Parker, David, 174. 
Parker, Thomas, 9. 
Parker, Samuel D., 149. 
Parker Family, 136. 
Payne, Edward, 174. 
Pavne, Edward, 09. 
Payne, 10. 
Pavne, Wm., 71. 
Paiue, R. T., 1 16. 
Paine, Timothy, 151. 



404 



Paine, Hannah, 40. 
Parkman, Samuel, 149. 
Patterson, Col., 201. 
Patterson, Robert, 174. 
Patterson, Enoch, 30. 
Patison, Mary, 347. 
Parsons, Theophilus, 83. 
Pecker, Capt. Daniel, 41. 
Pecker, Elizabeth, 41. 
Pence, John, 33. 
Pelham,L., 118. 
Pemm, Sarah, 40. 
Peck, Thomas H., 9. 
Pettit, Henry, 153. 
Pettit, Francis, 133. 
Pemberton, Ebenezer, 203. 
Pemberton, Rev., 55. 
Pemberton, Thomas, 213. 
Pemberton, James, 203. 
Peck, Thomas, 152. 
•^*Ct1?ins, Abigail, 97. 
Perkins, Abraham, 150. 
Perkins, James, 150. 
Perkins, Elisha, 150. 
Perkins, Wm., 72. 
Perkins, Thomas, 178. 
Perkins, Mary, 283. 
Perkins, Thomas H., 151. 
Phillips, John, 168. 
Phillips, John, 35. 
Phillips, Mary, 368. 
PhilUps, Mary, 184. 
Phillips, Elizabeth, 168. 
Philhps, Samuel, 61. 
Phillips Family, 42. 
Phillips, Mary, 63. 
Phillips, James, 1 79. 
Phillips, Lucy, 168. 
Phillips Faiuily, 275. 
PhUlips, Thomas, 79. 
Phillips, Lucy, 180. 
Phillips, Meriam, 35. 
Phillips, James, 184. 
Phipps, Dautbrth, 176. 
Phipps, Wm., 34. 
Pierce, Abraham, 164. 
Pierce, Ann, 130. 
Pierce, David, 164. 
Pitcare, Thomas, 217. 
Pichot, Armand, 77. 
I'inkney, Hannah, 169. 
Pinkney, Wm., 155. 
Pirdcne}', John, 210. 
Poole, Fitch, 157. 
Poole, Wm., 157. 
Porter, Dr., 88. 
Pomeroy, Seth, 188. 
Potts, AbigaU, 154. 
Poussin, Mrs., 73. 



Pollard, Ann, 153. 
Pollard, Mary, 41. 
Pollard, Mary, 111. 
Preble, Eben, 72. 
Preble, Commodore, 72. 
Preston, Captain, 173. 
Y Prince, Jas. & Wm., 337. 
Price, Ezekiel, 10. 
Price, E., 152. 
Prentice, Wm., 77. 
Prescott, Wm., 7. 
Prescott, Wm. H., 71. 
Putnam, Joseph, 51. 
Putnam, Sarah, 51. 
Purifoy, Wm., 23. 



Quincy, Edmond, 62. 
Quincy, Edmund, 130. 
Quincy, Samuel, 82. 
Quincy, John, 12. 
Quincy, Daniel, 130. 



R 

Rand, Saml., 65. 

Rand, John, 117. 

Rankin, Robert, 315. 

Ramsey, James, 67. 

Rathbun, Anne, 175. 

Ramsden, Hannah, 148. 

Read, Thomas, 211. 

Reork, Mary, 313. 

Redmond, Thomas, 22. 

Rhett, Wm., 68. 

Richards, Clarissa L., 312, 

Rice, John, 259. 

Ritchie, 116. 

Richardson, Wm., 19. 

Richardson^ J. D., 99. 

Ridgway, Philip, 131. 

Roulstone, Michael, 22. 

Roberts, Peter, 39. 

Roberts, Hannah, 39. 

Roberts, Mary, 10. 

Roulston, John, 53. 

Rogers, Danl. D., 69. 

Ropes, Wm,, 73. 

Rogers, Ezekiel, 27. 

Ross, Walter, 199. 

Rouse, Jonathan, 221. 

Russell, Jeremiah, 191. 

Russell, Wm., 246. 

Russell, Susannah, 192. 
I Russell, Laura, 252. 
I Russell, Rachael, 251. 



y': 



Russell, Jonathan, 245. 
Russell, Phillip, 245. 
Russell, Archelaus, 252. 
Russell, Thomas, 246. 
Russell, John, 250. 
Russell, Stephen, 252. 
Ru!3sell, Benj., 191. 
Russell, George, 245. 
Russell, Ellis, 252. 
Russell, Margaret, 244. 
Russell, Benjamin, 110. 
Russell, John, 245. 
Russell, Lord Wm,, 245. 
Russell, Ebenezer, 246. 
Russell, Brothers, 249. 
Russell, Rebecca, 251. 
Russell, Chambers, 245. 
Ruck, Thomas, 218. 
RuKgles, Saml., 213. 



Salesbury, Saml., 130. 
Salisbury, Deborah, 316. 
Salisbury, Benj., 316. 
Savage, Isaac, 80. 
Savage, John, 337. 
Saunders, John, 164. 
Sargeant, Henry, 215. 
Sargeant, Eliza, 75, 
Sargeant, L. M., 120. 
Scott, Joseph, 348. 
Scollay, Deborah, 338. 
Scollay, Mercy, 228. 
Sedgwick, Sarah, 43. 
Sedgwick, Robert, 43. 
Sears, David, 149. 
Sewall, Rev. Dr., 55. 
Sewall Family, 128. 
Shaw, Robert G., 378. 
Shaw, Lemuel, 142. 
Shaw, Hannah, 119. 
Shaw, Samuel, 378. 
Shannon, Nathaniel, 369. 
Sherlock, Dr., 126. 
Shed, Saml. A., 177. 
Shattuck, Geo. C, 208. 
Sharp, Lieutenant, 218. 
Shove, George, 34. 
Shorter, George, 210. 
Sigourney, Andrew, 181. 
Sigourney, Susan, 181. 
Sitcomb, Moses, 304. 
Simpkins, Pilgrim, 97. 
Simpkins, Catharine, 97.' 
Simpkins, 102. 
Surcomb, Richard, 347. 
Su-ey, Wm., 337. 



INDEX. 



405 



Silver, Fanny H., 313. 

t Skinner, .Joseph, ITn. 

Snaith, Franklin, 22. 

Smith, Martin, 11. 

Smith, Margaret, l.')2. 

Smith, Heman, 313. 

Smith, Mathew, 368. 

Smith, Samuel, 99. 

Smith, Thos., 30. 

Smith, Saml., 31.5. 

Smith, Ann, 21. 

Smith, Jas. and Robert, 315. 
, Smith, Henry & Oliver, 75. 
\ Snow, Gideon, 109. 

Sneliing, Thos., 153. 

Sohier, Wm. D., 71. 

Spooner, Wm., 153. 

Spooncr, Wm., 8. 

Spear, George, 354. 

Spring, Marshall, 120. 

Stutson, Sarah, 110. 

Stenson, James, 258. 

Strong, Abraham, 63. 

Strong, Electa, 312. 

St. Lawrence, Olimpia, 98. 

Stevens, Isaac, 29. 

Stephens, John, 165. 

Stoddart, Sophia and Noah, 
79. 

Stoddard, Wm., 388. 

Stearns, Rev., 55. 

Stone, Susannah, 33(5. 

Stedman, Josiah, 100. 

•Surcomb, Richard, 20, 

•Sullivan, James, 72. 

Sullivan, James, 18. 

•Sumner, Increase and fami- 
ly, 81. 

Sumner, Thos., 110. 

Sumner, James, 52. 

Swan, Hepzibah, 149. 

Swan, James, 149. 

Symmes, Mary, 341. 



Tappaa, Benj., and family, 

370. 
Tappan, Rev. Mr., 29. 
Tul'ti, Francis, 158. 
Todowneau, John, 255. 
Taylor, Wm., 117. 
Taylor, Gen., 12U. 
Taylor, Joseph, 69. 
Taylor, William, 21. 
Taylor, Abigail, 70. 
Tiiorndiiie, Israel, 11. - 
Thorndike, John, 381. 



Thatcher, Thos., 55. 
Thaxter, Seth, 152. 
Tilden, Joseph, 159. 
Tilden, Joseph, 99. 
Tileston, 0., 10. 
Tidd. Jacob, 21. 
Torry, Wm., 341.- 
Torry, Sarah, 180. 
Torry, Ebenezer, 19. 
Torry, Samuel, 340. 
Torry, James, 341. 
Torrey, Eliz.abeth, 145. 
Tolman, Henry, 100. 
Townsend, Penn, 282. 
Townseud, David, 302. 
Trask, Isaac, 160. 
Trask, Wm., 205. 
Trask, Henry, 205. 
Trask, Elias, 205. 
Tray, Martin, 10. 
'Trott, Wm. and Elizabeth, 

301. 
Trott, \Vaitstill, 301. 
Tredway, Dorothy, 133. 
Tuttle, Mary Abby, 146. 
Tucker, R. D., 100. 
Tuttle, Charles Wm., 146. 
Tuttle, Jedediah, 77. 
Tuftoii, John, 148. 
Tuthill, Zechariah, 28. 
Tuthill, Mary, 28. 
Turtill, John, 50. 
Tyler, Andrew, 178. 



Urann, Sarah, 51. 



Vassall, Henry, 161. 
Vickery, Elizabetli. 322. 
' Vinton, 0., 238. 



I W 

i Warden, Wm., 1J8. 
I Waldo, Samuel, 214. 
I Walters, Joanna, 134. 
I Walley, Hannah, 34. 

Walley, Judge, 138. 
' Walley, John, 34. 
, Walley, Thomas, 33. 
j Warren, Peter, 224. 

Warren, J. Mason, 149. 
1 Warren, Joseph, 15. 



I Warren, John C, 15. 

Warren, Joseph, 222. 
, Warren, John, 233. 
j Warren, JohnBorlace, 236. 
! Ward, Lydia, 186. 

Walcott, Thos., 104. 
1 Wardsworth, Hannah, 1 1 5. 
\j/Wardsworth, Judge, 166. 

Wardsworth, Sam'l., 218. 

Wardsworth, John, 166. 

Wardsworth, Benj., 166. 

Wardsworth, Sam'l., 166. 

Wallis, Thomas, 65. -— 

Wallace, John B., 120. 

Warefield, John, 320. 

Washington, George, 193. 

WendeU, John, 186.. 

Wells, Amelia, 312. 

WeUs, Wm. E., 312. 

Wells, Ebenezer, 20. 

Welles, Mehetible S., 96. 

Webb, Nathan, 77. 

Weller, George, 259. 

Wendell, John, 302. 

Whittle, Ebenezer, 101. 

Wheeler, Wm._, 52. 

White, Peregrine, 79. 

White, John, 167. 

White, Wm., 68. 

White, Mary, 167. 

White, Isaac, 154. 

White, Isaac, 21. 

Whitwell, Elizabeth, 241. 

Whitwell, Mary, 241. 

Whitwell, Samuel, 302. 

Wheatley, John, 179. 

Winslow, IMary, 62. 

Winslow, 56. 

Wiggin, Catharine, 148. 

Weir, Agness, 98. 

Weir, Ruth. 71. 

Wigglesworth, Rev. Dr. , 
130 

Winnock, Mary, 283. 

Winock, Mary, 169. 

Wisswall, John, 280. 

Wiswall, Ruth, 114. 

Winchester, Col., 69. 

Williams, Nathaniel, 107. 

William the Conqueror, 
115. 

Williams, J. F. & R., 21. 

Winthrop, Thos. L., 7. 

Willeston, Thos. & Sarah, 
368. 

Willeston, Rebecca, 388. 

Willard, Rev., 55. 

Willard, Catharine, 72. 

Wisner, Rev., 55. 



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INDEX. 



Winslow, General, 15. 
Willctt, Joseph, 21. 
Woodhouse, Mary, 182. 
Woods, Isaac, 138. 
Wood, James, 337. 
Worcester, N., 59. 
Woodrow, Henry, 120. 
Woodrow, James, 256. 



Woodbridge, Benj., 1!)1. 
Woodbridge, Dudley. 191. 
Wriglit, Sylvester S'., 312. 
Wright, Wm., 39. 
Wright, Obadiah, 159. 
Wright, Jerusha, 311. 
Wright, BUdad, 311. 
Wright, Enos, 311. 



Wymaii, Oliver C, 64 
Wyat, Thomas, 347. 



Young & Tuckerman, 303. 



